Wild boar and how to prevent damage to agricultural crops: lecture organised for the local population and wild boar repellents

On Wednesday, 26 April 2023 at 11 am, Dr. Krešimir Krapinec from the Faculty of Forestry, University of Zagreb will hold a lecture entitled “Wild boar and how to prevent damage to agricultural crops” in the conference room of the Krka Eco Campus in Puljane. Through this illustrative presentation, the local population will be familiarised with different ways of protecting their agricultural lands from wild boar, and combatting the damages this animal causes to their crops.

Those participants who own land within the park boundaries will receive wild boar repellent. A repellent is a substance that has a characteristic and unpleasant smell that repels wild boar from the areas where it is applied: crops, plough-fields, orchards, vineyards, and other agricultural and cultivated areas. The repellent neither kills nor harms the wild boar, instead the smell drives them away. The procedure on how to properly and effectively use repellents will be explained in detail at the lecture.

Wild boar (Sus scrofa L.) is the most abundant and widely distributed species of large game in Croatia. Their ability to adapt to different habitats, the wide range of foods they eat, their reproductive power and way of life have made it possible for them not only to survive despite the drastic changes to habitats caused by humans, but also to expand into new areas. Wild boar inhabits the national park areas, and therefore aggressive methods are not permitted to protect agricultural areas. However, in order to reduce or completely prevent damages caused by wild boar to crops, there are more acceptable methods, such as the use of repellents.

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