Picnics banned in Rome in effort to combat wild boar incursions

City acts to contain wild boar population after African swine fever detected in body of dead animal

Picnics have been banned and bins fenced off in a large swathe of northern Rome as health authorities move to contain the wild boar population after African swine fever was detected in a deceased animal.

Feeding or approaching the animals has also been forbidden, while people who have walked through farmland or nature reserves in the affected areas have been told to disinfect their shoes.