Your opinions are important to us. Since 2012, it has been compulsory for hunters to have wild boar they kill in Saxony tested for radiation. For example, radiation has ceased to be a problem on fields cultivated with commercial crops, he said.But forest soil in specific regions that were hit hardest after Chernobyl - parts of Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg in southern Germany - still harbors high amounts of radioactive Cesium-137 which has a half life of roughly 30 years, Emrich said.In fact, the Cesium from the Chernobyl fallout is moving further into the ground and has now reached exactly the layer where the boars' favorite truffles grow, the Hunting Association's Reinwald said.
Some were even found to be dozens of times over the limit, according to Unfortunately for Germany, the radiation is damaging more than just premium sausage stocks.
Therefore, the season for such truffles - a variety not eaten by humans - usually means a rising number of radioactive boars.Experts so far have no evidence that the animals suffer from the relatively low levels of radioactivity accumulating in their bodies. Autobahns have to be closed when boar wander onto them, they sometimes enter towns and, in a famous case in 2010, a pack attacked a man in a wheelchair in Berlin. Many hunters sell the boar as game, so the German government has to pay out compensation to the hunters whose animals must be destroyed. But in recent tests by the state government of Saxony, more than one in three boars were found to give off such high levels of radiation that they are unfit for human consumption.
"It doesn't cover the loss from game sales, but at least it covers the cost of disposal," Steffen Richter, the head of the Saxon State Hunters Association, told Germany's radioactive boar problem is not expected to go away any time soon. Those impacts are not just felt in Ukraine and nearby Belarus, however, butRadioactive wild boars roaming the forests of Germany are one lasting legacy of that widespread contamination, Wild boars are often hunted for their meat, a delicacy in the region. That compares to about 125 to 250 a decade ago. Your email address is used Radioactive Boar Roam The Forests Of Germany.
"For a young boar you get 100 Euros from the government, for a larger boar 200," Guenther Baumer, a veterinarian running a testing station in Bavaria, said. BERLIN – It was a big shot. Unfortunately for Germany, the radiation is damaging more than just premium sausage stocks.
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Wild boar are thought to be particularly affected because they root through the soil for food, and feed on mushrooms and underground truffles that store radiation. "We can guarantee that there is no contaminated meat on the market," said Ulrich Baade, spokesman for the regional hunters association in Baden-Wuerttemberg. Many hunters sell the boar as game, and across Germany hundreds of thousands of euros are paid out each year out in government compensation to hunters whose kills have to be destroyed. The nuclear disaster at Chernobyl occurred nearly three decades ago, but the radioactive legacy it has left on the landscape still continues today. But before he could take it home, a Geiger … part may be reproduced without the written permission.
Germany won't have to worry about radiation for as long as Rachel Nuwer writes for Smart News and is a contributing writer in science for Smithsonian.com. By VERENA SCHMITT-ROSCHMANN , Associated Press Writer (AP) -- It was a big shot. 25 August 19, 2010. A few years ago, a government report revealed that nearby in Germany, about one in three boars killed by hunters were radioactive. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.
Twenty-eight years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, its effects are still being felt as far away as Wild boars still roam the forests of Germany, where they are hunted for their meat, which is sold as a delicacy. "The reason is that there are more and more boars in Germany, and more are being shot and hunted, that is why more contaminated meat turns up," spokesman Thomas Hagbeck told The Associated Press. Radioactive boars on the rise in Germany.
The radioactivity causes economic problems as well. Since 2012, it has been compulsory for hunters to have wild boar they kill in Saxony tested for radiation. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Aug. 20, 2010 Updated: Feb. 10, 2012 5:48 p.m. Facebook Twitter Email. For people, cesium-137 is not safe for consumption. Radioactive boars on the rise in Germany By VERENA SCHMITT-ROSCHMANN, Associated Press Writer Forester Andreas Thiermeyer takes a piece … In 2017, it was confirmed that approximately one out of three boars slain in nearby Germany exhibited levels of radiation deemed completely unsafe for human consumption. In just one year, 297 out of the 752 boars tested in Saxony exceeded 600 Bq/kg. A big hog. She is a freelance science writer based in Brooklyn.