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This year, the sight of an entire herd of wild boar will be a rarity.
The deer hunt begins on September 1, its price reaches 12,000 euros
This hunting season will be very unusual. Two factors overlap: the COVID pandemic and the ongoing African swine fever, which has led to a drastic reduction in wild boar. There are no more wild boars in the areas of many hunting parties.
Hunters will have to adapt and refocus on deer, predators and small game, the head of the forestry agency’s hunting department, Yulian Rusev, told 24 Chassa. According to him, many will stay this year
without
The most popular
hunting – group
of a wild boar
By law, it begins on October 1 and is considered the “royal” hunt by the Aujis.
Every year we call for an increase in resettlement of farm-produced game, Rusev said. It was a resource that could be controlled and maintained so that the hunt could continue. Many groups actually relocated the game, which they kept in temporary aviaries, but there were also some that only surpassed the numbers.
The deer hunt begins on September 1. However, it is expensive, in hunting farms the cheapest and smallest trophy of 4-5 kg costs 600 euros. The price reaches 12,000 euros for trophies of more than 12 kg.
We have great expectations in deer hunting, because next September there will be a world exhibition in Budapest, where we should show off what we have, Rusev said. We will also count on him to recover foreign aujis, who are now practically absent due to COVID. There were many requests for the exhibitions earlier in the year in Dortmund and Salzburg, but most failed due to difficulties with travel in the pandemic. She was among the most attractive to foreign hunters.
the shooting
in grouse
and wild goats,
but this year there were 5 people out of hundreds in the previous ones.
As “24 Chasa” wrote, the new hunting season opened on August 8th. Traditionally, it begins with migratory hunting: quail, turtle dove, woodcock, snipe, and snipe. Hunters complain about some quail. In principle, it is impossible to count migratory hunting, but so were the observations of hunting experts.
According to an EC report, quails are declining in Europe due to habitat loss, Rusev said. According to him, cereal production and quail hunting were incompatible. The reason is that everything was plowed and there was no place for the birds to nest. They were forced to search for food higher up, 1300-1400 m above sea level, which was not typical for the species. Another reason is the heat, which also makes the birds go to the mountains. Thus, there are no quail left near the Black Sea, and this is where this type of hunting traditionally began in previous years. There were also foreign aujis by the sea, who came to hunt birds. Now there was more migratory hunting in southern Bulgaria. Usually the quail had 5 hatchers per year in Bulgaria. All four were carried out, but with this tillage regime there was no time for the fifth, the habitat was gone by the plow.
The situation is similar with the pigeon, Rusev explained. Now
Bulgaria is a
only 10
European countries,
where you can thunder on them. It is expected that there will be restrictions at the European level that will also affect us. Since 2018, the pigeon has the status of a “vulnerable” species. At first, there are sure to be bans on the western flyway. In France, Spain, Italy and Austria, 3 million doves are shot each year. Until now, there was the possibility that Bulgaria would get away with a complete ban on pigeon hunting, because on our road “Via Pontica” only 300-350 thousand units were shot per year.
The French and Spanish are very concerned about the ban on pigeon hunting, which may be an opportunity for us to attract more foreign hunters from these countries, said the head of the hunting department of the forestry agency. But even with this type of hunting, cereal production was devastating. The pigeons nested in individual trees that line meadows and fields, as well as around country roads. However, grain growers removed these trees because they interfered with them, and every year the roads in the field changed.
They give 100 BGN each carcass of a wild boar
The state grants 100 BGN to each of the hunters who shoot a wild boar during an individual hunt or find the body of a dead person. This is stated in an order dated May 7 by the Minister of Agriculture, Desislava Taneva. Before that, there was also a monetary incentive, but it was different: BGN 50 for a boar shot and BGN 150 for a found dead. Following an audit by the European Commission on the implementation of measures against African plague, it is recommended that the amounts be equalized.
In the last 1-2 years since the African swine fever problem emerged, foresters have been trying to encourage hunters to minimize the wild boar population.
In fact, nature did it, the hunters helped, but little, the Forestry Agency said. For the last hunting season, a plan was put in place to hunt 81,000 wild boars, which was approximately 44% fulfilled.
At the moment, the wild boar has been significantly reduced, in northern Bulgaria it can be said that it is already rare, commented the head of the hunting department at the executive forestry agency Yulian Rusev. There were still more wild boars in southern Bulgaria, but they are expected to decline drastically there too soon.
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