HAMBURG, March 22 (Reuters) - The governments of Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic have agreed that intensified hunting of wild boar is needed to combat an outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) ...

A wild boar in Bavaria, Germany. Levels of radioactive contamination in the animals have not declined significantly since the Chernobyl disaster of 1986. Lino Mirgeler / picture alliance via Getty ...

Cold War nuclear weapons tests scattered radioactive material across the globe. That material can still be found in trace amounts in the sea, the soil, and — according to a new study — the flesh of ...

HAMBURG (Reuters) - Germany plans a wild boar-free zone along the Polish border to counter African swine fever (ASF) and on Thursday called on Poland to help more in countering the pig disease. Wild ...

A case of African swine fever (ASF) has been found in a wild boar in the eastern German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, close to a case found on a farm in the state earlier in November, the federal ...

HAMBURG, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Three more cases of African swine fever (ASF) have been confirmed in wild boars in the eastern German state of Brandenburg, Germany's federal agriculture ministry said on ...

Rome — On a cool night in late September, zoologist Andrea Monaco walks silently through the sandy shrublands of the Presidential Estate of Castelporziano, a protected area just outside of Rome, ...

Raccoons are appearing more frequently in our surroundings–and with them, many questions. What does this actually mean for us ...

A team of scientists from Germany has recently conducted a serological screening on wild animals to assess seroprevalence against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and other ...

Berlin, Oct 26, (dpa/GNA) – More than 30 commercial poultry farms in Germany have been forced to cull their animals, following outbreaks of avian influenza, according to Germany’s animal health ...

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