Hunters reported on the implementation of 92% of the plan for the shooting, which was supposed to lead to reduced population density to a level of 0.1 individuals per sq. km. has Been committed 4.3 million outputs to hunt that averaged about 12 thousand times a day. Press Secretary PSO argues that in regions where there is a threat of African swine fever, the population has fallen even below 0.1 boar per sq km., and all impossible to kill - in their place come the animals of Ukraine and Belarus.

Most experts supported the view that to deter Achs should reduce the population of wild pigs. Now shooting entirely shifted onto the shoulders of PSO and attempts to involve the police and the army have not been successful. Krzysztof Yurgel, head of the Polish Ministry of agriculture, believes that the Union can not cope with the task of decreasing the population to the desired values, and should generally be eliminated.

However, the implementation of the plan of shooting - not an easy task. The number of wild boars is not reduced quickly because they can double population every year, so to change the number, you need to shoot more than it currently has population. For example, in the hunting season 2016/2017, the number of wild boars was estimated at 229 thousand individuals, and the hunting plan was to shoot 282,2 thousand individuals.

With the arrival of summer do in Poland, cases of occurrence of ASF among wild boar but also in domestic pigs. In total in June have been seven outbreaks that hit 6248 pigs, and 112 lesions in wild boars.

Source: the Chairman of the Kaliningrad branch of the interregional ecological public organization "Green front" Oleg Ivanov