This was stated by the biologist and researcher at the Higher Polytechnic School of Huesca, Juan Herrero, who specializes in Pyrenean fauna.
The biologist and researcher at the Higher Polytechnic School of Huesca, Juan Herrero, who specializes in Pyrenean fauna, has stated that, at this time, the chamois or chamois (known in Upper Aragon as sarrio), is being affected by the Pestivirus, a disease caused by a virus that has been spreading this year or this.
The biologist explained that this pathology arrived in 2011 from Catalonia and has already reached the Monte Perdido Massif. It causes a mortality of 30% of specimens and is a natural disease, little known.
In these cases, the intervention consists of describing what is happening and counting the affected specimens, since as it is natural "it is not usually treated." The counts of the wild boar will be carried out in June, July and November and, based on the incidence observed, the authorized hunting quotas will have to be adjusted.
The population of sable antelopes in the Basque Pyrenees currently reaches nearly 11,000 individuals, according to the specialist, who specified that this circumstance will condition aspects of the management of the species.
Herrero is one of the speakers at the technical conferences on the sarrio that began last Thursday in Boltanya, and will continue on the 26th in Jaca. They are organized by the Government of Aragon, with the collaboration of the University of Zaragoza and the Pyrenean Institute of Ecology.
Around a hundred people are participating, including nature protection agents from Aragon, caretakers from the public company Sociedad Aragonesa de Gestió Agroambiental (SARGA), caretakers from the Ribagorça Region and forestry agents from the Regional Government of Navarra, and this activity aims to update the training of these professionals.
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