Wild pig troubles the city, Spain's Catalonia region allows killing

[Global Times special reporter Wang Fang in Spain] A large number of wild boars have troubled many cities in Spain in the urban area, and even the people are injured by wild boars. In response, Spain's Catalan Broadcasting Station reported on the 18th that Catalonia's region passed legislation to allow professionals to kill wild boars under certain premise.

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Statistics show that in 2021, a total of 1,200 facilities were damaged due to wild pigs for food. In addition, the number of local wild boars may exceed 2 million beams by 2024. It is reported that the wild boar has been preferentially treated by the people before. The Barcelona government also has laws to stipulate that anyone is not allowed to harm wild boars, and offenders will be punished by criminal punishment. Today, wild boars have gradually revealed wildness in an unlimited living environment, and they are not afraid of human beings, which greatly disturb the normal life of the people.

Some veterinarian teams said that research found that wild boars have a strong concern for cubs. This means that wild boars often appear in the urban area for food, and once the pigs are threatened, their "parents" will launch an attack on humans out of the "protective calf" mentality.

The reporter has seen the "team action" in Barcelona many times. The "parents" of the wild boar are responsible for entering the trash can to turn out the food, let the pigs eat first, and then eat a meal by themselves. After eating, the wild boar "parents" led the cub and returned to the pig nest in the mountain along the road. At about 4 am, there was no one over the streets of Barcelona. One of the big pigs walked with two small pigs and walked in the center of the street to take a walk. Later, the police station sent two police cars to "escort" the wild boar and sent them back to the pig nest. The move was also aimed at preventing them from hurting the residents.

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