30 January 2019 - Dortmund
Conference on African swine fever with hunters
The European Commission's Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE) together with European Federation for Hunting and Conservation (FACE) is organising a conference entitled: "Preparing European hunters to eradicate African swine fever".
The event will serve as a follow up to the political discussions on African swine fever (ASF) in the EU that took place on 19 of December 2018 in Brussels at the Ministerial Conference ("Eradication of African swine fever in the EU and the long-term management of wild boar populations").
The conference was held in Dortmund on 30 January 2019, in the margin of the Europe's largest hunting exhibition "Jagd & Hund". Invited participants include the representatives of European hunting associations, representatives of veterinary and environmental services of the EU Member States, representatives of European industry, scientific organisations.
The main goal of the event is to highlight the key role of hunters to prevent, control and eradicate ASF. A long-term management of wild boar population and increased coordination between veterinary services, farmers, forestry management bodies and hunters is needed to efficiently control and prevent the spreading of the disease.
Therefore, cooperation on the management of the disease from both the agricultural and environmental side is essential.
Videos
Presentations
- African swine fever and the legislative framework: the management of disease eradication through awareness and cooperation
- Current status of EU risk assessment work on African Swine Fever
- ASF awareness raising
- ASF in wild boar in the Czech Republic - what we learned and what we missed
- FACE Conference Preparing hunters to eradicate ASF - The example of Belgium
- African Swine fever - Experience
- FACE Conference - Preparing European hunters to eradicate African Swine Fever
- ASF in wild boar prevention and management
- African swine fever – between the poles of textbook, history and current situation
- Preparing European hunters to eradicate African Swine Fever CIC opinion on combatting ASF