Denmark is going to begin construction of a 70-kilometer fence on the border with Germany. This is reported by Deutsche Welle.
This design should protect Danish domestic pigs from German wild boars that are the bearers of African swine fever. It is noted that neither in the kingdom itself nor in Germany have cases of this disease been recorded, but they were registered in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
Fencing height of a meter and a half erected in 2019. The construction of the fence will cost 11 million euros.
Many believe that the fence will not help to solve the problem, and environmentalists fear that the fence will prevent the migration of other animals - deer, wolves, otters, foxes.
In June of this year, the parliament decided to build. He was actively supported by deputies from the populist populist Danish People's Party, which received 37 mandates out of 179 in the elections last June.