Norway considers ‘boar-proof fence’ along border with Sweden

Measures to eradicate wild boar population designed to stem risk of African swine fever outbreak

Norway could build a fence along its border with Sweden as part of a package of measures designed to eradicate its wild boar population after an outbreak of African swine fever in Sweden last year.

Up to 2,000 wild boars face slaughter in Norway under the plan submitted by the country's food safety authority and its environment agency, on the grounds of the great danger" boars pose to commercial pig farming.