Driven by farmers, the minister proposes the eradication of wild boars north of the Sambre-et-Meuse furrow

The Walloon Minister of Agriculture, René Collin proposes to reduce the wild boar population by 50% in Wallonia within two years. It will present a series of measures that will completely change the boar hunting in the very short term.

Walloon and Flemish farmers demonstrate in front of the cabinet of the Walloon Minister of Agriculture this Wednesday morning. They will be joined by loggers, and the badociation Inter-environment.

All this little world is calling for a drastic reduction in the population of wild boars, animals that carry some of the swine fever, but especially those that destroy the crops.

Jérôme Feleur is a farmer in Arlon. "For my farm, in the spring, I had a compensation of 3,000 euros for damage in the meadows. But the estimates were 5,000 euros. Then there was more than 1,000 euros of damage in corn. And in autumn, there is even more damage than spring".

Minister René Collin seems to have heard the farmers even before they come to protest. They propose a halving of the wild boar population in Wallonia within two years. René Collin wants to make all the arrangements so "no more wild boar north of the Sambre-et-Meuse furrow"He also wants to allow night shooting in plain"so that hunters reach their quota ", writes the Future.

But is it enough? "No, we asked for 80%. But it's still the same since this issue has existed for 15 years. We must see the means that will be put in place to obtain these results. Because often the proposed measures are not binding or not applied. So it's not enough", according to Yvan Hayez, president of the Walloon Federation of Agriculture.