Wild boar hunters in Catalonia hang up their guns to protest against new regulations

Strike could lead to sharp rise in region's unwieldy boar population, which is estimated at 250,000

Catalonia's hunters have hung up their guns to protest against new regulations, in a move that could lead to an exponential rise in the region's already unwieldy wild boar population.

The wild boar hunting season began on Sunday and runs until in March but Catalonia's 33,000 hunters have objected to a new rule that said they must use GPS coordinates to notify the authorities in advance about where they plan to hunt, otherwise they could lose their insurance.