Overview

• Regional leaders presented a plan de choque in Xàbia as the Generalitat’s decree on ungulates remains in trámite to set unified rules for managing wild boar and other species.
• Current measures extend hunting periods, lift day-of-week limits, allow electronic tagging and night or thermal optics, remove capture quotas in declared overabundant areas, and permit culling at watering points.
• Disposal rules are loosened with carcasses allowed at vulture feeding stations and large municipal burials under authorization.
• The Generalitat budgeted €900,000 in grants for municipal control plans, while the Diputació de València will provide €600,000 to the hunting federation, including roughly €300,000 for intensified batidas and a truck-slaughter unit.
• Overabundance is widespread with 98 municipalities in Alicante on the list, about 90% of Valencia province declared, and 76 in Castellón; field efforts include EU-backed captures cutting boar locally in Montgó (420; 42%) and the Marjal de Pego-Oliva (247; 20%).