About 40,000 wild boar live in the community of Madrid, there are more than a hundred abuses every year

The Community of Madrid has started a plan for the control of wild Zwijnpopulations to prevent traffic accidents due to abuse in the countryside and urban areas As well as other damage caused by surplus copies.

In the black points of the route, the signaling will be strengthened and the housings, and to install alert and deterioration devices to prevent the passage of Wilde Boals.

In addition to the various control measures to be implemented, the information has also been used since then In addition, there are many copies, citizens have no idea what to do before the presence of these animals and a telephone 24 gives them the advice they need.

Jabalis in the community of Madrid

In the community of Madrid A population of wild boar estimates between 35,000 and 40,000 copies, a presence that “increases”And since 2012 they have caused an average of 120 accidents a year on Madrid Roads, which is two -thirds of the accidents for hunting fauna.

It is data that The general director of biodiversity and forest management of the community contributed on TuesdayIrene Aguiló, in the environment, agriculture and the interior committee of the Madrid Assembly, where it explained the measures recently taken by the regional government to tackle this “worrying” situation.

At the beginning of April, The community decided to expand itself to the hunt and the conquering of wild boar in ten forest areas, including 124 municipalitiesInitiative framed in a population control plan that will be used until 2030.

Aguiló has mentioned The risks involved in the overcrowding of Wilde Zwijnen, which are damaged from road risks to washed by “attacking pets and even people”Because they visit peri -urban areas and potential food security threats.

Increase hunting and use quota

The general director also pointed out that, in the regions of “yacht emergencies”, not only the hunting periods have been flexible: they are too They have increased the quotas of copies that can hunt and, for example, the use of thermal viewers in combination with the weapon permitted, prior permission.

In addition, Aguiló explained that an advisory service was made available to affected municipalities, With an operating telephone 24 hours, to solve the doubts they have. And it is that “the municipalities don’t know what to do” and “people don’t know how to behave before the presence of a wild boar,” he added.

That is why the community has distributed a protocol in which it indicates to local administrations what information they should transfer to the population and what instruments they have at their disposal. Finally, Aguiló has indicated that it will be specifically intervened The “black points” of the roads, where the housings are improved, “will be placed alert and deterioration devices” And jungle work will be carried out to “reduce the favorable habitat” in the nearest environment (a strip of 20 meters) of those roads. EFE / ECOTICIA.COM