The Xunta has advocated optimizing coordination between the agents involved in the prevention of damage and control of wild boar while evaluating new measures to address the presence of the speciessuch as the installation of cage traps in urban and peri-urban areas.
The working group meeting for the management of the species was chaired by the general director of Natural Heritage, Marisol Díaz, and made up of representatives of the Ministry of Transport and the Galician Infrastructure Agency, the Civil Guard and Seprona, the Ministry of Rural Affairs, Sanidade, Fegamp, the Galician Federation of Hunting, as well as Agrarian Unions, Asaga and the Galician Labrador Union.
At the meeting, the different measures to control the impact of this species on the community and the coordination between all parties were analyzed. In this sense, the Xunta has indicated that the participants have presented different proposals and proposals during the meeting. novel methods existing in other communities or countries in order to study the possibilities of its application in Galicia.
In this way, they have highlighted that hunting activity and the work of hunters They are fundamental for the control of the populations of the species and the need to advance complementary measures with which to improve management. In fact, it has been agreed to hold this type of meeting more frequently and to invite the Attached Police Unit (UPA) of Galicia to the next meeting, given that it also participates in the control of issues related to wild boar management.
The Department of the Environment has stated that in the last two hunting seasons – 22/23 and 23/24 – a greater number of notices of damage caused by wild boar were registered. In total, more than 4,000, compared to around 3,000 in previous years and that, to stop them, complementary measures were adopted such as the declaration of the hunting emergency both last year and in the current hunting season.
Temporary hunting emergency
In this sense, the Xunta decreed for the fourth time on October 11 the temporary hunting emergency in a total of 40 regions (13 in A Coruña, 10 in Lugo, 11 in Ourense and 6 in Pontevedra) that include 260 town councils (77 of them from A Coruña, 57 from Lugo, 87 from Ourense and 39 from Pontevedra) and 85% of the surface of Galicia.
In fact, this declaration represented an increase compared to the previous one, which affected 37 regions and 248 municipalities, taking into account issues such as the increase in the number of accidents caused by wild boarwhich increased by 30%. This measure seeks, in addition to reducing damage to land owned by the agricultural sector, to prevent accidents and increase road safety.
Apart from the measures adopted for rural areas, the person in charge of the General Directorate of Natural Heritage has recalled that there is a specific collaboration procedure with the town councils for the installation of cage-traps in urban and peri-urban areas to deal with the presence of wild boar, a possibility that municipalities such as Sada, Oleiros, Arteixo or more recently the O Grove City Council have already resorted to.
Furthermore, between 2016 and 2024, the Xunta allocated around 12 million in aid to prevent and compensate for the damage caused by wild boar to the Galician agricultural and livestock sector, of which more than 9 million euros were to address the damage caused to agricultural land and the rest to adopt measures to mitigate the impact of the presence of this species in the environment.
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