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Wild boar harvest rates are increasing significantly since decades over Europe indicating both an increasing population size and a spreading geographic distribution. Despite this clear diagnosis and despite the fact of negative economic effects (in terms of causing agricultural damages or spreading diseases like Classical Swine Fever) there is still a considerable gab in explaining this phenomenon. This hampers the development of management strategies considerably.

One major difficulty in forming sound hypothesis is an obvious lack of an European wide standardized and critical overview of wild boar related information.

Thus it is planned to start an international research project between 2008 and 2011 named “Analysis of temporal and spatial development of wild boar harvest in Europe” (initiative and funding by our Research Institute for Forest Ecology and Forestry, Germany, willing to cooperate with the other wild life research institutions). The workshop will be a first step in this process.

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