Overview
- The Xunta published the resolution on Thursday, July 30, 2026, putting Galicia under a hunting emergency that runs until 31 July 2027 unless it is revoked earlier.
- The declaration applies to all four provinces, special hunting‑regime lands, zones free of hunting and, for the first time, commercial big‑game hunting estates.
- Authorities may order unlimited abatements and captures with operations focused on adult and subadult females while killing or capturing piglets and sows with piglets requires a special permit.
- The emergency authorizes exceptional tactics and timings, including day and night stakeouts, driven hunts, live captures with subsequent slaughter, electronic night optics, animal detectors, expanded baiting and actions any day in special‑regime lands.
- The Xunta says the step responds to rising crop damage, more traffic accidents and peri‑urban sightings and to the threat that high boar numbers would hinder control of African swine fever; this is the sixth use of the instrument but the first applied to the whole region.