African swine fever is a contagious and deadly viral swine disease affecting domestic and feral swine of all ages.

This is feral swine country (boaring, one could say…) and ex-boars have been popping up with disconcerting regularity along the Rhine around Oppenheim and Nierstein.

No further spread, and that’s mainly due to the restrictions in place – dogs on leashes, limited access for pedestrians (but cyclists aren’t a risk factor. Yay!)

And electric fences to give any errant Sus scrofa a quick zap as an incentive to sod off to whence they came.

This one’s strung close to the Rhine in Budenheim and stretches from Bingen through to Mombach, a western suburb of Mainz, to repel beasts which regularly commute merrily to and fro across the Rhine.

Keeping those in, in and those out, out.

And to anyone who has yet to experience it – micturating against an electric fence is not to be recommended…

27 Jan This entry was published on 27 January, 2025 at 09:00 and is filed under Mainz, Nature. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.