About ten years ago there were a few reality shows about pig hunting in the U.S. and it’s clear they are hard to hunt to keep populations down. Many are nocturnal, they can eat anything, they have thick hides that allow them to travel through thick, thorny underbrush and have a better nose than a dog. Like a rat, for every one you see, there are many more that managed to hide from you.
They will be terrible for farm land, but I wonder if the impact will be different throughout this country .... like these boars are huge in Russia, but they have wolves, tigers and bears to prey on them. We don’t have tigers, but we have those other big predators and down south a lot of the states wiped out their big predators. I could see them possibly having less impact in some areas in Canada due to predation.
Maybe we should follow the Australian model, if you have too many mice, you let loose tons of cats, if you have too many beetles, you let loose tons of cane toads .... so if we get too many wild boar, we would certainly need more tigers? Lol