The Institute for the Conservation of Nature and Forests (ICNF) authorized wild boar hunting in tourist hunting areas (ZCT) with a size of less than 400 hectares, and ZCT management entities may change their Hunting Management and Exploitation Plans (POEC) to the effect.
Hunting through the mounting process is excluded, with the waiting process or small “hooks” that do not jeopardize the safety of hunters being permitted, adds the ICNF.
The decision comes «in a context in which the wild boar population in mainland Portugal is above the environmental support capacity, and it is important to reduce it in order to avoid losses to agriculture and possible road accidents».
On the other hand, adds the ICNF, «the exploitation of a small number of species in these ZCTs leads to over-exploitation of that species or group of species».
In this way, in ZCTs with less than 400 hectares, where, according to Decree-Law no. 202/2004, of August 18, only one species or group of species can be exploited, «it is understood that the wild boar must be included in all “species groups”, taking into account the need to control the population, as well as the conclusions of the Strategic and Action Plan for Wild Boar in Portugal: wild boar and one other species or wild boar and pigeons, or ducks, or thrushes »
This will allow «increasing the rate of wild boar extraction in these areas during the hunting period, defined in the Hunting Management and Exploitation Plans».
Entities that own or manage hunting areas interested in carrying out measures to correct the density of wild boar can request these actions from the ICNF.
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