Research protocols for designing studies/pilot trials to evaluate and to improve effectiveness of wild boar management in relation to African swine fever virus

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Brož, Luděk - Gieser, Thorsten … celkem 27 autorů
Research protocols for designing studies/pilot trials to evaluate and to improve effectiveness of wild boar management in relation to African swine fever virus.
Parma: European Food Safety Authority, 2021. 92 s. EFSA supporting publication, 2021:EN-6583. ISSN 2397-8325
GRANT EU: European Commission(CZ) 866350
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68378076
Klíčová slova: research protocols * research objectives * wild boar * management and population control * African swine fever * monitoring * social acceptance * national and international decision-taking
Obor OECD: Antropology, ethnology
https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/23978325

The ecological plasticity of wild boar and their growing populations can generate conflicts with human activities and can be a threat to livestock and public health. Particularly, the emergence of African Swine Fever in Europe is of major importance. However, there are gaps in knowledge about wild boar ecology, population monitoring, management and population control that prevent the design and application of the best science-based ASF control policies, and/or adaptive evaluation of the actions taken. The effectiveness of wildlife policies is known to be directly proportional to their acceptance by stakeholders. However, it is unknown how the acceptance of these policies and different management scenarios vary among stakeholder groups, in different socio-economic and cultural contexts. Acceptance by stakeholders in different contexts determines the success of management strategies. Finally, factors that influence wild boar abundance and disease spread are not bound by national borders. Thus, there is need to coordinate national and international decision-making. In this context, this report presents research protocols to address a number of knowledge gaps previously identified by EFSA, and aims to improve the strategy to control ASF in the short-term. Twelve research objectives grouped into six categories address aspects of: (i) wild boar ecology, i.e. studies on basic aspects of wild boar population dynamics and assessment of the factors that determine the presence of wild boar near outdoor pig farms, (ii) wild boar monitoring, i.e. implementation of practical methods to estimate wild boar density
and strategies to promote their application, (iii) wild boar management and population control, i.e. effect of feed availability, role and efficacy of recreational hunting and professional culling, efficacy of wild boar trapping and different fencing methods and the use of trained dogs in ASF affected areas, (iv) social acceptance by the stakeholders, (v) assessment and management of risk factors (biosecurity awareness and implementation among backyard pig farmers, evaluation of passive surveillance and carcass removal), and (vi) national and international decision-taking. We propose protocols for each specific research objective, their study design, implementation methodology, required time frames and budget limitations. We comparatively summarize the protocols and discuss them in terms of solving overlaps and interactions among protocols that address different research objectives, which eventually can be combined to optimize the use of resources and budgets and to reduce the required time needed to achieve objectives.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0322749