April 25, 2010: Boar Busting

[xoxoxoBruce]

Germany is having a lot of automobile wildlife collisions.

A total of 27 people died and 3,000 were injured in a quarter of a million collisions with wild animals on German roads in 2009, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of animals that perished in the process, ADAC, the largest automobile club in Europe, said on Tuesday.

They are particularly worried about wild boars, because unlike squirrels, they are heavy and solid, they are also plentiful.

In Germany, hunters shot a record 450,000 boars in the 2008/2009 season, which runs year-round beginning on April 1, according to figures from the German Hunting Federation (DJV). That was up by a third from the previous season and gives the best available indication of the population. The total number of boars roaming the forests, suburbs and maize fields of Germany is now estimated at between 2 million and 2.5 million.

So, ADAC is doing some testing to see how much damage boars cause.



No boars were harmed in these tests.

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