Acció Climàtica, Alimentació i Agenda Rural has listened to the claims of the agrarian organizations, and will finally place aluminum phosphide in burrows on the Generalitat LV-7041 road from Soses to Massalcoreig to kill rabbits. To apply it, the holes are covered, leaving one open to insert the aluminum phosphide tablets, an oxygen inhibitor that, when mixed with water, dissolves and turns into a gas, leaving the cavity without oxygen.
Managers of the department in Lleida have met this week with managers of Carreteres of the Generalitat and the company awarded the application of the phosphide, Miarnau Agritecno, to agree on the schedule of action. The Ministry maintains that the use of aluminum phosphide as a biocide is authorized in infrastructures, good places for rabbits to burrow, "and it does not represent any risk for the food chain." To apply it, it is necessary to have the use card of the Ministry of Health. In addition, the Ministry has asked the State for authorization to carry out a pilot project on agricultural land.
On the other hand, while nets and cages are beginning to be put into operation to lower the density of rabbits, the Generalitat has already announced to the Hunting Federation and to the owners of the private hunting areas affected by damage, that the declaration of a hunting emergency to fight against the overpopulation of rabbits, which will allow the department to act ex officio and organize hunts in all the preserves, even if the owners do not request them.
