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The dreaded African swine fever is moving ever closer to Germany from Poland. The mass shooting of wild boars is intended to prevent the disease from spreading here. But can hunters even afford that? We accompany hunters near the German-Polish border in their fight against the voles: fire from all guns - hunters under stress. Never before has the outbreak of an animal disease been so feared in Germany as that of African swine fever (ASF). Agriculture is threatened with billions in damage. What could be more natural than to vigorously combat the supposed main carrier of the disease - wild boars? 70, preferably 90 percent of the animals are to be shot by hunters in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Because ASF has already arrived in neighboring Poland. Hans-Martin Fröhlich and Jörg Espig are hunters on the island of Usedom. There is even a bonus for shooting wild boars there. The animals cross the border from Poland almost every day. A particular threat. The two farmers are therefore particularly ambitious to kill as many wild boars as possible and to stop the outbreak of the disease. But this is currently pushing them to the limit of their endurance: they are working day and night to fight the disease. During the day they are active in drives, where the pigs are driven to the hunters by dogs. At night they sit in the stand for hours by moonlight to take a pack of wild boars under fire. They hardly have time to work anymore, and even sacrifice their free time. And their families are already grumbling. The two have been fighting the wild boars since the summer, when the packs devastated their corn fields. The hunters are having success with their tireless efforts and occasionally shoot a wild boar. But how are they supposed to kill the required 70 percent of the perhaps 500 wild boars in their region? Because the more there is hunting, the more shy the clever animals become. They are almost impossible to catch, even with new traps. More information is available here: https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendunge...