Overview
- Most of roughly 50 wild boar carcasses recovered in the Collserola zone have tested negative, with all nine confirmed positives confined to the initial perimeter and searches now extending to a 20‑kilometer ring.
- The Generalitat is awaiting European Commission and Spanish Agriculture Ministry authorization to start mass capture and culling using traps, cages and silenced firearms, with logistics and biosecure disposal plans prepared.
- Deployed personnel have been increased to about 1,000 across Agents Rurals, UME, Guardia Civil, Bombers, Mossos and local police, while Madrid has sent a seven‑member Agentes Forestales team with a canine unit.
- The European Commission’s provisional measures apply through 28 February 2026 across 91 municipalities, carrying movement and export implications for pork products from the demarcated area.
- Regional and economic responses are accelerating, with Aragón paying €30 per boar and authorizing thermal scopes and net enclosures, Galicia reinforcing hunts and seeking a sectoral meeting, and industry facing trade shifts including Mexico’s suspension, China’s acceptance outside Barcelona province, the UK’s alignment with EU demarcation, and a 300‑temporary cut at Grupo Jorge.