Mikołaj
Golachowski describes plan as ‘evil’ and warns of environmental consequences
Shaun
WalkerCentral and eastern Europe correspondent
Fri 11
Jan 2019 07.00 GMTLast modified on Fri 11 Jan
2019 07.04 GMT
Conservationists
have branded plans by the Polish government to cull almost the entire wild boar
population of the country as “pointless, counterproductive and evil”.
In a move
to tackle an epidemic of African swine fever, the Polish government has ordered
a series of hunts, beginning this weekend, with the aim of killing the vast
majority of the country’s population of around 200,000 wild boar.
Last
year, the country’s veterinary officials approved a plan to kill 185,000 wild
boars this season, and the country’s PZL hunting union said it had already
killed 168,000 since last April. The government has recently decided to speed
up the process by calling all licensed hunters to go out seeking wild boars,
including pregnant females, over weekends this month.
Opponents
of the cull said it is not only cruel but pointless, or possibly even
counterproductive.
“The
massacre of wild boar in large-scale hunts will not stop [African swine fever],
it will only help the spread of the virus to western Poland,” said
an appeal by environmental organisations to the government to abandon the plan.
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