It's a wild boar invasion coming to a place near you
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It's a wild boar invasion coming to a place near you
Forget rats and cockroaches, these are a new threat.. Wild boars are thriving across the world.
Wild boars, or the Eurasian wild pig, are on every continent except Antarctica. In Europe, there are now more than 10 million boars running wild. Their numbers have boomed since the 1980s due to three things: warmer climates, improved agriculture, and declining predators.
According to experts, if a boar population falls by 90%, it can still recover within three years.
Wild boar thrive on trash. High-calorie diets, like human rubbish, or corn and cereal crops, are causing them to have more piglets, and more often.
In Berlin, the city is paying hunters to kill any wild boar seen within the city limits. While they have eradicated thousands, around 3,000 are still living in parks and green areas.
In other parts of Germany, hunted boar have shown excessive levels of radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown in Ukraine. As recently as 2014, one in three had radiation levels higher than was fit for human consumption. They’re thought to be particularly susceptible because they eat mushrooms and root through soil that has stored the radiation.
And in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture, where no one has lived since 2011’s nuclear meltdown, wild boars have flourished. Between 2010 and 2012, the number hunted rose from 3,000 to 13,000. The average weight of a male hog was 200 pounds, and since they couldn’t be eaten, hunters faced the conundrum of dealing with millions of pounds of radioactive flesh.
In Barcelona, to stem boar numbers, wildlife management is ignoring males and targeting female boars and their young. They also go along with police at night, in case they’re needed to put boars down. And it’s working — clashes between boars and people in the city are falling.
In Poland, the number of wild boars are thought to be between 200,000 and 500,000. In 2014, the African Swine Fever was detected in more than 3,000 boars across Poland. There is no vaccine for the virus.
In 2018, it was widely thought that the government planned to slaughter 210,000 boars to stop the virus from spreading. From 2016 to 2018, it is estimated that almost 600,000 boars were already killed.
But 350,000 people signed a petition and 800 academics sent a letter, demanding the culling be stopped. In response, the environment minister denied any order was ever given.
In early 2010, a 42-mile fence was erected between Denmark and Germany to stop the deluge of wild boars crossing the border. Denmark has 6 million people and 12 million pigs, and it’s a $US4.6 billion industry that it doesn’t want contaminated.
In the last year in China, the world’s largest pork producer, more than one million pigs were culled because of the virus, and it’s now in every province. Up to 200 million more could be slaughtered or die from the disease, by the end of the year.
In Hong Kong, boar sighting and nuisance reports rose from 294 to 738 between 2013 and 2017. They have been roaming in the financial district, the international airport, and a shopping mall.
Wild boars run up to 30 miles per hour and can leap over three-feet-high fences. One of the reasons they’re thriving in Hong Kong is that people are feeding them.
Hong Kong’s urban area has also expanded into the boar’s habitat. And around 40% of the city’s territory is either park or nature reserve, which is where the boars are thought to live.
In Pakistan, wild boars descend on Islamabad, the capital, every winter. It’s perfect for boars since the city is surrounded by wooded ravines and was formerly forest. In a study of boar’s stomachs found in the area, nearly 60% of the contents were garbage.
In 2012, a wild boar attacked a police officer, resulting in eight stitches. The station chief said it was “like a terrorist.” Another managed to break into the tightly guarded president’s palace. Here, people hunt a boar down in the streets.
In South Korea, wild boars have flourished due to the loss of predators like tigers, leopards, and wolves. Notably, in 2006, there was a 400-pound wild boar that plagued a small island town, killing 20 goats. An 80-year-old man was also killed by a wild boar that same year.
In September, Malaysia was dealing with an onslaught of wild boars thought to be swimming miles through the sea from Indonesia to Pulau Besar Island. It’s almost 10 miles off the Malaysian coast, and fisherman are sure they have seen snouts in the water at night. Once the boars reached the island they have been destroying crops, and locals are concerned that on Pulau Besar the boars might soon outnumber the human inhabitants.
In the US, wild boars cause more than $US1.5 billion damage every year, and between 1982 and 2012 they spread from 17 states to 36.
In 2017, Louisiana’s 700,000 wild boars cost the state $US76 million. A Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries employee called them a “mammalian cockroach.” Boar populations are notoriously difficult to stop, and 70% of populations need to be killed each year just to stop them growing.
But in Louisiana, one business is trying to turn the problem into a gift. Springfield Slaughter House has been butchering boars and turning them into sausages, hams, and shoulders since 2015. Although, one slaughterhouse won’t be enough to stem the tide alone.
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/wild ... tos-2019-8
Wild boars, or the Eurasian wild pig, are on every continent except Antarctica. In Europe, there are now more than 10 million boars running wild. Their numbers have boomed since the 1980s due to three things: warmer climates, improved agriculture, and declining predators.
According to experts, if a boar population falls by 90%, it can still recover within three years.
Wild boar thrive on trash. High-calorie diets, like human rubbish, or corn and cereal crops, are causing them to have more piglets, and more often.
In Berlin, the city is paying hunters to kill any wild boar seen within the city limits. While they have eradicated thousands, around 3,000 are still living in parks and green areas.
In other parts of Germany, hunted boar have shown excessive levels of radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown in Ukraine. As recently as 2014, one in three had radiation levels higher than was fit for human consumption. They’re thought to be particularly susceptible because they eat mushrooms and root through soil that has stored the radiation.
And in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture, where no one has lived since 2011’s nuclear meltdown, wild boars have flourished. Between 2010 and 2012, the number hunted rose from 3,000 to 13,000. The average weight of a male hog was 200 pounds, and since they couldn’t be eaten, hunters faced the conundrum of dealing with millions of pounds of radioactive flesh.
In Barcelona, to stem boar numbers, wildlife management is ignoring males and targeting female boars and their young. They also go along with police at night, in case they’re needed to put boars down. And it’s working — clashes between boars and people in the city are falling.
In Poland, the number of wild boars are thought to be between 200,000 and 500,000. In 2014, the African Swine Fever was detected in more than 3,000 boars across Poland. There is no vaccine for the virus.
In 2018, it was widely thought that the government planned to slaughter 210,000 boars to stop the virus from spreading. From 2016 to 2018, it is estimated that almost 600,000 boars were already killed.
But 350,000 people signed a petition and 800 academics sent a letter, demanding the culling be stopped. In response, the environment minister denied any order was ever given.
In early 2010, a 42-mile fence was erected between Denmark and Germany to stop the deluge of wild boars crossing the border. Denmark has 6 million people and 12 million pigs, and it’s a $US4.6 billion industry that it doesn’t want contaminated.
In the last year in China, the world’s largest pork producer, more than one million pigs were culled because of the virus, and it’s now in every province. Up to 200 million more could be slaughtered or die from the disease, by the end of the year.
In Hong Kong, boar sighting and nuisance reports rose from 294 to 738 between 2013 and 2017. They have been roaming in the financial district, the international airport, and a shopping mall.
Wild boars run up to 30 miles per hour and can leap over three-feet-high fences. One of the reasons they’re thriving in Hong Kong is that people are feeding them.
Hong Kong’s urban area has also expanded into the boar’s habitat. And around 40% of the city’s territory is either park or nature reserve, which is where the boars are thought to live.
In Pakistan, wild boars descend on Islamabad, the capital, every winter. It’s perfect for boars since the city is surrounded by wooded ravines and was formerly forest. In a study of boar’s stomachs found in the area, nearly 60% of the contents were garbage.
In 2012, a wild boar attacked a police officer, resulting in eight stitches. The station chief said it was “like a terrorist.” Another managed to break into the tightly guarded president’s palace. Here, people hunt a boar down in the streets.
In South Korea, wild boars have flourished due to the loss of predators like tigers, leopards, and wolves. Notably, in 2006, there was a 400-pound wild boar that plagued a small island town, killing 20 goats. An 80-year-old man was also killed by a wild boar that same year.
In September, Malaysia was dealing with an onslaught of wild boars thought to be swimming miles through the sea from Indonesia to Pulau Besar Island. It’s almost 10 miles off the Malaysian coast, and fisherman are sure they have seen snouts in the water at night. Once the boars reached the island they have been destroying crops, and locals are concerned that on Pulau Besar the boars might soon outnumber the human inhabitants.
In the US, wild boars cause more than $US1.5 billion damage every year, and between 1982 and 2012 they spread from 17 states to 36.
In 2017, Louisiana’s 700,000 wild boars cost the state $US76 million. A Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries employee called them a “mammalian cockroach.” Boar populations are notoriously difficult to stop, and 70% of populations need to be killed each year just to stop them growing.
But in Louisiana, one business is trying to turn the problem into a gift. Springfield Slaughter House has been butchering boars and turning them into sausages, hams, and shoulders since 2015. Although, one slaughterhouse won’t be enough to stem the tide alone.
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/wild ... tos-2019-8
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Re: It's a wild boar invasion coming to a place near you
'Seaborne invasion' of wild boar swamps mystical Malaysian island
Fishermen report seeing ‘snouts in the dark’ in Malacca Strait, one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes
Kate Lamb in Jakarta
Fri 6 Sep 2019 04.02 BST
A mystical Malaysian island is grappling with a “seaborne invasion” of wild boar, which some believe are swimming kilometres across one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes before destroying crops.
“The seaborne invasion of wild boars leaves us in despair as the animal population is increasing,” said Norhizam Hassan Baktee, chairman of the Malacca agriculture committee, of the influx on to Pulau Besar.
The creatures are thought to be from Indonesia, which would mean navigating the busy Malacca Strait, a 550-mile-long (900km) stretch of water between Malaysia and Indonesia that is only a few kilometres wide at its narrowest point.
Fishermen working in the strait have reported seeing “snouts in the dark” in coastal waters each night, though the animals may also have been stowaways on shipping.
The wild boar are using island of Besar as a landing point before crossing into the Malaysian mainland and other coastal areas.
“The mystical island of Pulau Besar here has witnessed widespread damage from the ‘migration’ of dozens of these wild boars, including piglets,” said Baktee.
Pulau Besar, which according to its namesake means “big island”, is a sleepy tropical island located about nine miles off the Malaysian coast, across from the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
Given the recent influx of wild boar the agriculture committee said it was concerned the migrant pigs might soon outnumber the island’s small human population.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/ ... ian-island
Fishermen report seeing ‘snouts in the dark’ in Malacca Strait, one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes
Kate Lamb in Jakarta
Fri 6 Sep 2019 04.02 BST
A mystical Malaysian island is grappling with a “seaborne invasion” of wild boar, which some believe are swimming kilometres across one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes before destroying crops.
“The seaborne invasion of wild boars leaves us in despair as the animal population is increasing,” said Norhizam Hassan Baktee, chairman of the Malacca agriculture committee, of the influx on to Pulau Besar.
The creatures are thought to be from Indonesia, which would mean navigating the busy Malacca Strait, a 550-mile-long (900km) stretch of water between Malaysia and Indonesia that is only a few kilometres wide at its narrowest point.
Fishermen working in the strait have reported seeing “snouts in the dark” in coastal waters each night, though the animals may also have been stowaways on shipping.
The wild boar are using island of Besar as a landing point before crossing into the Malaysian mainland and other coastal areas.
“The mystical island of Pulau Besar here has witnessed widespread damage from the ‘migration’ of dozens of these wild boars, including piglets,” said Baktee.
Pulau Besar, which according to its namesake means “big island”, is a sleepy tropical island located about nine miles off the Malaysian coast, across from the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
Given the recent influx of wild boar the agriculture committee said it was concerned the migrant pigs might soon outnumber the island’s small human population.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/ ... ian-island
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Re: It's a wild boar invasion coming to a place near you
Searching topics for 'wild boar' and the 'similar topics' at the bottom here shows that Cambodia also has it's very own wild boar issues.
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Re: It's a wild boar invasion coming to a place near you
Most common large wild mammal in Cambodia.
because, most of its predators are gone.
Important prey species for remaining large predators - including piglets for raptor birds and other small carnivores
Mostly from domestic pigs gone feral - pigs revert to wild form after just a few generations in the wild'.
Few/zero ancient wild boar genes.
Not threatened in Cambodia.
Destructive to waterways and ag land.
Hunting keeps population under some control.
(unfortunately many other species are collateral damage to snares and other hunting targeted primarily for pigs)
Anybody got any good wild pig stories??...
because, most of its predators are gone.
Important prey species for remaining large predators - including piglets for raptor birds and other small carnivores
Mostly from domestic pigs gone feral - pigs revert to wild form after just a few generations in the wild'.
Few/zero ancient wild boar genes.
Not threatened in Cambodia.
Destructive to waterways and ag land.
Hunting keeps population under some control.
(unfortunately many other species are collateral damage to snares and other hunting targeted primarily for pigs)
Anybody got any good wild pig stories??...
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Never see reports or damage done by wild pigs in the forest or mountain areas in Cambodia.
Would have though that because Cambodians are scared of going in to these area because of ghost etc, and no guns powerful enough to kill pigs, that wild pigs would be breeding faster than rabbits.
Would have though that because Cambodians are scared of going in to these area because of ghost etc, and no guns powerful enough to kill pigs, that wild pigs would be breeding faster than rabbits.
Cambodia,,,, Don't fall in love with her.
Like the spoilt child she is, she will not be happy till she destroys herself from within and breaks your heart.
Like the spoilt child she is, she will not be happy till she destroys herself from within and breaks your heart.
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Re: It's a wild boar invasion coming to a place near you
I see them rooting up waterways regularly and crop/ag land damage is common.Duncan wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2019 8:26 am Never see reports or damage done by wild pigs in the forest or mountain areas in Cambodia.
Would have though that because Cambodiansare scared of going in to these area because of ghost etc, and no guns powerful enough to kill pigs, that wild pigs would be breeding faster than rabbits
See snares 1000's, see hunters, dogs, hear guns. Snares most common way of hunting.
The hunters are well tuned in, and indeed often in league, with those ghosts and forest spirits.
Not city people.
Yep, exactly that, our rabbits.
And you are right too Duncan, in that the issue has never really been the subject of much study and reporting.
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Roast pork in delicious!
You could be next.
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^^ Yep, wild-pork, at its best ( a fat young sow which has been eating grass and berries) is the nicest meat I know. The fat is just delicious.
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