EU wild boar - 2-3mln heads in Italy for food supply - in favor for same in Canada?
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bearkilr
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Unbeknownst to modern biologists, they can actually be hunted to extinction. Our race is good at that.
boars outside of the rut period but hard to define as the sows can be in heat 2 or 3 when it was once before ...
Guys, do not make fantasies ...
Feral hogs are here, across all Canada.
Specially in Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba.
There is a site with many of sighting reports, exists for years:
http://wildboarcanada.ca/
Lots of publications were, for example since 2014, highlighting that problem in Ontario at that time:
http://www.torontosun.com/2014/09/02/wild-boar-prairie-problem
http://www.ofah.org/2014/09/mnrf-au...-kill-escaped-wild-boars-in-prescott-russell/
As you can see, in the past Ontario MNR open hunt, but now all closed, here is the explanations why:
https://www.ontario.ca/page/invasive-wild-pigs-ontario#section-1
So, no more hunting, just reporting...
Alberta recently mentioned that it will follow Ontario way...
Feral hogs are here, across all Canada.
Specially in Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba.
There is a site with many of sighting reports, exists for years:
http://wildboarcanada.ca/
Lots of publications were, for example since 2014, highlighting that problem in Ontario at that time:
http://www.torontosun.com/2014/09/02/wild-boar-prairie-problem
http://www.ofah.org/2014/09/mnrf-au...-kill-escaped-wild-boars-in-prescott-russell/
As you can see, in the past Ontario MNR open hunt, but now all closed, here is the explanations why:
https://www.ontario.ca/page/invasive-wild-pigs-ontario#section-1
So, no more hunting, just reporting...
Alberta recently mentioned that it will follow Ontario way...
+1.
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- WMU247 near Edmonton
that sounds like fun
I myself have only ever seen 1 wild boar, I keep hearing about them but they really don't seem to be taking over.
If I see one while hunting I'm going to shoot it.
They're an invasive species that create no end of environmental damage. You must be out of your mind.
Grizz
Yup and here in Alberta folks keep their wild hog honey holes a secret and the problem persists instead of doing their best to wipe them out.
Already here in AB. Hard to hunt though, they are primarily nocturnal it seems. - dan
The south African ones are delicious. - dan
In Europe, in the forest, with or without them - plants, birds, insects and other animals are unaffected.
As for farmfields - there are so many fields there that presence of wild boars is not noticeable.
They used to squeeze through the fence and hide in the grain - but did not eat enough to notice and did not knock down enough stems to notice.
First time I heard this.
maple_leaf_eh
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I read the methodology used by the Saskatchewan PhD for his thesis on boars in the province. The analysis was done on water samples for a particular trace marker in the feces. The distribution was then geo-located on well-documented watersheds. Gravity works year round, and water flows downhill. If one positive sample was found in a rural municipality, that was all the "proof" he needed to declare a widespread established population solidly across the RM. Very speculative arguments and I wonder how others in academics were so easily convinced. The risk of false positives, a single travelling individual cutting through corners (and crapping), or domestic samples escaping to the environment such as on a worker's rubber boots or vehicle tires didn't seem to be accounted fo. But, I only have a Bachelor's degree and not in wildlife biology. How could I know, and who am I to challenge a doctoral candidate?
i did live in europe and hunted them ... trust me you do not want them doing little damages on your crops ... why we were able to shoot them at night?
Don't think those will last long through a prairie winter. - dan
I see videos of them struttin' around in Poland... just swarms of them... they're just awful vermin... I have no compassion for them, compared to any other animal out there...
This is where machine guns come into play.
There's so many of them, and they move so fast. And they breed so fast... your semi-auto ain't gonna do nuthin.
For some reason I haven't seen them in the South of Warsaw, but one night I was walking closer to the middle of the city, near the river, and they were in the woods. I saw one big MF-er jump out some bushes... and then as I was walking I could hear them all over the place.
Farmers plant their crops, the boars come in at night and dig up EVERY SINGLE KERNEL of corn the farmer planted:
Oh and don't forget, they are LOADED with parasites, not to mention swine flu. And per my Zaporozhia NPP thread, boar in parts of Europe were accumulating radioactive fallout from Chernboyl (and of course decades of above ground nuclear bomb tests) by eating mushrooms etc. that had absorbed radioactive particles.
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What Europe are you talking about?
Here in Poland, they are in the cities... they have Swine Fever... they risk spreading the disease to pig farms. Poles are big on Pork. Beef almost doesn't exist in the Polish diet.
https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/07...g-of-wild-boars-in-warsaw-with-a-heavy-heart/
https://notesfrompoland.com/2022/09...n-residents-of-increased-wild-boar-sightings/
https://notesfrompoland.com/2021/06...ers-humane-solution-to-growing-urban-problem/
https://notesfrompoland.com/2020/07...-polish-city-deals-with-booming-boar-numbers/
the spank
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A friend of mine near Orillia sent me a picture of a pig walking the edge of the bushline behind her house on her acreage the other day that looked identical to the feral hogs you see in texas right down to the tan and dark spots colours. She texted me right away as it was walking past her back deck not 10 yards and asked "is this legal to shoot?"
