February 20, 2023

 

Norway's action plan aims to depopulate wild boar numbers in country

 

 

Norway's Food Safety Authority and the Norwegian Environment Agency have presented a revised action plan that entail measures to achieve the Norwegian government's goal of eradicating wild boars in the country.

 

The escalated action against the animals were adopted after an outbreak of African swine fever in Sweden in September last year.

 

In the revised action plan, several new measures were recommended in addition to the continuation of measures that are already in place.

 

Recommendations include:

 

    - Extensive population monitoring to get an overview of where the animals are;

 

    - Making arrangements to be able to sell meat from wild boars that are shot;

 

    - Developing a digital solution for recording wild boar observations;

 

    - Implementing measures to make hunting more efficient;

 

    - Introducing requirements that producers with outside pigs in areas with wild boar must have a wild boar-proof fence;

 

    - Building a fence facing Sweden;

 

    - Securing areas with waste to which wild boars can gain access.
 

- Government of Norway