Generalitat Valenciana Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development, Climate Emergency and Ecological Transition, Control of wild boar and sheep populations in five natural parks reduce the impact of these species on other threatened species and human activities.
The European-funded project aims to improve the conservation of endangered species in the natural parks of Marjal de Pego-Oliva, El Prat de Cabanes-Torreblanca, Desert de les Palmes, Font Roja and Serra de Mariola. 6,200 protected hectares.
The goals of the project are to reduce the density of wild boar and barbarian populations.to reduce their impact on other threatened species and human activities, to improve existing information on the above-mentioned species, to increase cooperation between users and the Administration, and to promote good practice.
While a much higher-than-normal abundance of wild boar has been detected in the areas where the program will be implemented, sheep are classified as invasive species in protected natural areas according to state and regional regulations, while management guidelines are for eradication. .
The overabundance of these animals has an impact on threatened flora species, bird nests or hare populations.prey to other endangered species.
The duration of the works to be carried out by transferring to Vaersa Group is 24 months and the budget is 700.000 Euro. In the first phase of the project, necessary sampling will be conducted to learn the status of both wild boar and sheep species, as well as flora and fauna species whose conservation is endangered due to abundance. from the aforementioned mammals.
After collecting the information, technicians will recommend actions necessary to reduce wild boar and sheep populations, and inform and gather opinions from relevant groups such as city councils, hunters, environmentalists or farmers. It should be noted that monitoring agricultural damage or catching wild boar in protected areas requires the permission of the owners.
In the second phase of the project, direct and indirect measures established in the first phase will be implemented. This initiative, aimed at improving the management of the region, has an important research component to better understand the impact of increasingly abundant species compared to increasingly scarce species.
Sheep, goat destroying the environment
The barber is a very hardy invasive mountain goat breed. and discussions in a state like Alicante. Sometimes they descend from the mountains of Alicante, where they have multiplied in the last four years, and devour the crops. Farmers calculate it might be in the mountains At least a dozen clans from 20 to 40 copiesAbout half a thousand animals causing irreparable losses to their crops and thus to their economy. So they claim to be able to hunt them, or the administration claims to have placed feeders in the mountains of Alicante, as in Cazorla for deer, roe deer and wild sheep, and in Asturias for bears.
mussels They came to the province from the Sierra de Espuña in Murcia, where they were introduced about forty years ago, a feature unique to the mountainous regions of the Sahara Desert.
Legislation regarding the control of Barbary sheep has changed many times and hunting is now permitted with restrictions. In 2014, the Ministry of Agriculture began drafting a plan to classify it as a hunting species due to its damage to native species such as the mountain goat and to agriculture, but subsequent state legislation pardoned Barbary sheep from 2018 and only allowed hunting in certain areas.
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