Due largely to urbanization and forest regrowth, wild boar populations are expanding across Europe—causing up to $22 million of agricultural damage a year in Italy. Experts are in an urgent quest to control the seemingly unstoppable herbivore
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“They have accessed a gigantic pantry: our farm fields and organic urban waste. Nothing has been effective at curbing their population growth—they have no predators; their natural habitat, the forest, is expanding; and winters are less cold,” she says.Does hunting work? It’s complicated. A hunter drags a dead boar he killed in Corsica in 2014. In general hunting has not slowed the spread of the species. Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.
But many traditional hunters oppose this idea, both because of its solitary nature and because it would limit boars available for the much-loved, the president of Federcaccia, Italy's historic hunters' association, is aware of the importance of selective hunting, but says that it would not be enough. He says he believes that only hunters, who can catch dozens of boars at once during a, can solve the problem, and that they should be allowed more autonomy to intervene in protected areas.
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