Wild boars in Loire-Atlantique: As much damage in the last 4 months as during the whole of last year!

350,000 euros of damage last year, 337,000 over the last 4 months!

We are all aware that the proliferation of sus scrofas populations in our territories has become a critical problem, particularly for the agricultural world and, in turn, for the financial health of the departmental hunters' federations (FDC) as the president recently stated. of the Regional Federation of Hunters of Brittany. Thus, our colleagues from Courrier du Pays de Retz have just revealed that the departmental federation of hunters of Loire-Atlantique (FDC 44) had paid around 337,000 euros in agricultural damage due to wild boars alone, for the last 4 months, while all of these compensations amounted to 350,000 euros for the whole of last year!

An increase rate of wild boars of 100 to 300% per year!

The situation is visibly critical in this department where hunters took around 8,000 swine in 2023 while these samples amounted to 2,500 seven years previously. Global warming, abundant food and the existence of territories placed in reserve and therefore prohibited for hunting, are all factors which explain a rate of increase in wild boar populations which is between 100 and 300% (!) per year according to Denis Dabo , director of FDC 44, interviewed by our colleagues.

For One Voice, the wolf will sort everything out

In their article, our colleagues talk about hunters » submerged » and it is unfortunately an image that is starting to make its way into the minds of part of public opinion, raising doubts about our capacity as “managers” of wildlife. Thus, our colleagues also questioned the animalist Muriel Arnal, president of One Voice, on the subject. For her, yes there is a problem with the wild boars but the wolf will solve it. Moreover, ” This mission should not be entrusted to people whose leisure it is! » asserts the activist. But the journalistic honesty of our colleagues will force them to recall that our Swiss friends from the canton of Geneva, after almost half a century without hunting, have just decided on exemptions in order to regulate wildlife!