Experts alerted – these animal sailing are increasing

The German media report on the “Wild Boar alarm in Spain”, the Spanish capital Madrid has already declared the state of emergency because of the wild scourge of Zwijnen. The cultural successors on the Iberian Peninsula are so at the beginning that it is added every three days that a wild boar is understood by a car.

Spain and Italy on alert
In general, the population of the brush hairs would have risen to two million. About 400,000 animals are killed annually, the hunt is now allowed throughout the year in ten provinces around Madrid. Cage -drops must also help to keep the animals away from people. The Wild Boar Vorm -car is justified with the phenomenon “España Vaciada”, because more and more is taking place where people have moved to cities and coast.

But even with our southern neighbors in Italy, the exuberant population of more than 1.5 million wild boar is increasingly becoming a problem. Because the Italian production and export of the Parma Knuckle can endanger the worldwide, can mainly endanger. Wild pigs contribute even more than breeding pigs to the spread of diseases and epidemics. In the previous year this had the reason why Canada, China, Mexico and Japan had issued an import ban on Parma Ham.

We too are not spared from the “plague”
But what is the situation in Austria? To despair the farmers, the breastlings continue to browse. Calculating, browns and newcomers are difficult because of their nocturnal lifestyle. The hunting statistics before 2023/24 indicate a population increase. According to this, 47,800 animals were killed – 9.1 percent more than in the previous year.

Sauen-Hotspot are also the Lungau and Flachgau in Salzburg. There they even dig around Alpine Weiden – to dismay the farmers. “Due to the warming of the climate, Wild Boar is becoming an increasing subject. This can even survive the cold winter in the high mountains,” says Staatshager Max Mayr-Melnhof. To get the game better, young animals were equipped with channels in the districts in the Salzburg district of Tamsweg.

Man does his own to make the wild boar feel good. Because the huge corn fields in the east of the Alpine Republic and the domestic compost delicatessen are for them. The smart animals quickly discover this food source, knows the Tyrolean Wildlace expert Martin Sturzeis.

He also sees a real march from the wild boar – from the North – Cape to Spain. According to estimates, there must only be millions of animals on the Iberian peninsula. “But they are hard to count,” explains an expert on a sturzeis. Exact figures can therefore hardly be determined. According to him, an overcrowding is particularly clear when the disease breaks out.

Strong drawing year this year
When walking a forest it is not only possible to meet a wild boar. This year there are also many small, dangerous leeches on the road. Some experts even talk about a “tick year”. And many of these small insects that are classified as mites wear pathogens that can cause serious diseases, such as Lyme disease or early summer people encephalitis.

Keeping high temperatures and high humidity. In the meantime, they are active almost all year round. The ages (Austrian Agency for Health and Nutrition Protection) reports that signs were found even at 1500 meters above sea level. So be careful when walking!

Moreover, the Hyalomma Tick has now been discovered in Styria for the first time. How the tap could come from Asia to Central Europe is unclear.

It is clear that the type can cause a dangerous fever in people. Long pants offers protection against tick bites. And a rule of thumb says that after a stay in the forest can be showered immediately and also search the cloak. To prevent it, it says: vaccination!