For the study, scientists examined 48 samples of wild boar meat from across southern Germany, finding high levels of radioactive cesium in most of the samples. Comparing the levels of short-lived ...

HAMBURG (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) among wild ...

Many of the wild boars roaming across central Europe are so radioactive that they are dangerous to eat, and it's down to a combination of nuclear weapons testing and the Chernobyl disaster. Previously ...

German officials confirmed the first case of African Swine Fever (ASF) in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia on Saturday, adding to the list of states where the virus has been identified. The ...

HAMBURG, Sept 24 (Reuters) - A further three cases of African swine fever (ASF) have been confirmed in wild boar in the eastern German state of Brandenburg, Germany's federal agriculture ministry said ...

Germany’s Ministry of Food and Agriculture said on Wednesday it had a suspected case of African swine fever (ASF) in a wild boar in the eastern state of Brandenburg. The suspected case concerned a ...

Wild boars have become so radioactive that German hunters aren’t even bothering to pursue them anymore. And while the prevailing theory has been that the Chernobyl nuclear plant meltdown in 1986 is ...

Authorities determined on Friday that there is “no acute danger” to people in an area on the edge of Berlin where a potentially dangerous animal was spotted, saying they no longer believe that a ...

Though they’re known for their love of sausage and schnitzel, many Germans shy away from one type of meat: home-grown wild boar. The tusked animals, which roam the mountainous region of Bavaria, are ...

Officials in the town of Kleinmachnow, Germany, called off a massive, two-day hunt for what they believed was a lioness at large, saying the large animal may have actually been a native specimen of ...