Plan limits the population of wild boars were presented to the Prime Minister of Poland and sent to the Ministry of the environment. It involves the use of equipped with thermal imaging drones to locate and count wild boars that must be destroyed by the hunters. Hunting clubs will be required to shoot up to 90% counted on the animal areas for two weeks. To eliminate the corpses of the boars should be used by the army.

The plan assumes that the use of modern methods will lead to the fact that "eradication of wild boar population will last a maximum of two months." Pioneers in the use of drones and thermal imaging by scientists from the Polish Academy of Sciences, which, thanks to night flights drones, count the deer, ROE deer and wild boars.

According to informed sources, so far the Ministry of agriculture and environment of the country could not cooperate in the fight against Achs because of the conflict their leaders. Now as a result of the January government reshuffle, the post of Minister of environment Jan Szyszko instead took a more compromising Henryk Kowalczyk, from whom they expect more effective enforcement of the Polish Association of hunters for shooting wild boar.

The hunters see the need for a more stringent approach.

- You need to go further and suspend the laws on the protection of animals and the hunt, so that effective reduction in the number of wild boar as possible. Special measures are needed. It is a war. Achs and so causes of mortality among wild boars at 90%, say their representatives. - The use of drones and thermal cameras does not guarantee success, but more important is the rate of reaction of the Minister of environment is reported to have died from the virus in boars. Still, the Minister designated zones, in which begins shooting in two weeks after reports of dead animals.

The virus of African swine fever was detected in Poland in February 2014. Since identified bole 100 outbreaks in pigs and more than 1000 cases in wild boars. In December last year the first cases on the Western side of the Vistula.

Source: Kaliningrad branch of the interregional ecological public organization "Green front"