Lazio is to double its planned cull
of wild boar to 50,000 amid an outbreak of swine fever in the
region around Rome, according to the new plan unveiled Tuesday.
This would all but eradicate the animals since only 50,000 have
been left after 25,000 were killed by hunters out of a
population of around 75,000 in the 2021-2022 hunting season.
Swine fever first broke out in the northern regions of Piedmont
and Liguria where hundreds of cases have been reported.
But a handful of pigs have now come down with the fever in Lazio
too.
Farmers and others have been calling for a boar cull anyway
because of the increasingly brazen and dangerous incursions of
the animals into cities.
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