Just before 1 April 2017 expect to shoot 70 species of wild pigs.

"In these border with our area regions have already been cases of deaths of wild boars from the African plague. To virus threat came in the Vologda region, it is necessary to reduce the population of these animals in the buffer zones", — said the head of the regional kordamentha Oleg Kislitsyn.

Note, in 2016 the region was inhabited by the order of 6700 boars. Hunters got 1116 individuals. In addition, 166 of the animals had to shoot in areas where African swine sick domestic pigs. However, the results of laboratory studies of the virus of ASF in wild boars were found.

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