To stop an epidemic of swine fever, Germany’s Agriculture Ministry is putting up electric fences to prevent wild boars from crossing its border with Poland.
The first fences were erected alongside the border with Poland on Friday near the town of Guben, within the German Land of Brandenburg.
The German Ministry of Consumer Protection has said it’s focusing is on the Spree-Neisse and Oder-Spree districts also because of the City of Frankfurt (Oder).
The fences are 90 centimetres high and expected to stay for a limited period of your time, which can depend upon the spreading risk situation within the areas of the Neisse and Oder rivers. Installing the fences will cost around 160,000 euros to the German state. The districts will manage the small print of the development.
“The restrictive zone extends now from the Polish side to the German border”, Ursula Nonnemacher, Germany’s minister for environmental protection, has said.
“We hope that these fences will offer particular protection.”
No case of African swine fever (ASP) has been observed in Germany thus far, but entirely 50 cases are detected in dead wild boars on the Polish side of the border. The detection of ASP in Germany could end in substantial restrictions on pigmeat exports to non-EU countries.