Gwangyang-si to Implement Wildlife Damage Compensation This Year

Compensation for Human and Crop Damage Caused by Wildlife

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Heo Seon-sik] Gwangyang City announced on the 11th that it will implement a "Wildlife Damage Compensation Project" to preserve farmers' income and reduce damage caused by wild animals such as wild boars and water deer, as damage to human life and crops caused by wild animals continues.

The support targets are farmers residing in Gwangyang City who cultivate land and those who have suffered direct human injury caused by wild animals. Compensation will cover 80% of the damage amount calculated based on the Rural Development Administration's standard income data unit prices for agricultural and livestock products, considering damage area, income amount, crop growth rate, and damage rate.

The project will be carried out over 10 months until December. If a damage compensation application is submitted to the town, township, or neighborhood office where the land is located while preserving the damage site, an adjuster will investigate the site and calculate the compensation. Compensation for crops and other damages will be up to 5 million KRW, and compensation for human injury will be up to 10 million KRW.

The city operates a nuisance wildlife damage prevention team to prevent damage caused by wild animals and continuously carries out damage prevention projects. Recently completed applications for the damage prevention facility installation support project have provided 685 million KRW to 255 farms from 2011 to last year, striving to prevent damage to farm crops and others.

Cho Hee-su, Director of the Resource Circulation Division, stated, "To reduce damage caused by nuisance wildlife, we will provide maximum support for prevention facility support projects and damage compensation projects, and simultaneously reduce the population of nuisance wildlife through capture activities and trap rental projects. We will continue to make efforts to help make Gwangyang a better place to live."

Meanwhile, compensation for damage caused by wild animals over the past three years amounted to 12 million KRW for 29 cases in 2018, 14 million KRW for 36 cases in 2019, and 18 million KRW for 25 cases last year.

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