Hunters Are the Reason Wild Boars Are Spreading...

[HoytCRX32]

....so says the Alberta government

https://calgarysun.com/news/local-ne...0-6e36dc48a47f

[Bushrat]

They're spreading because they allowed people to import and let them escape.

[HoytCRX32]

Apologies to the Mods...there is already a thread in the Hunting forum

[Grizzly Adams]

Originally Posted by Bushrat

They're spreading because they allowed people to import and let them escape.

There it is, Government policy and Game Farms. Now the government doesn't know how to deal with the problem. Just another day.

Grizz

[last minute]

Someone laughed at me when I say give it time they will spread now look at it.i wish I could find that person now

I love it hunter's are not doing enough
So now what

[elkhunter11]

[Sooner]

Hunters are making it worse. What? I shouldn't be surprised he said that. If the farmers want them gone, they have to step up and help with access and info on where they are seeing them. Doesn't seem like that is not happening though.

[HighlandHeart]

Hunters are to blame for the spread of wild boars? Must be an "If we kill our enemies they win." sort of situation? I guess I don't understand the science.

[bat119]

It's simple the boars only natural predators were the mastodons wiped out due to over hunting

[wildbill]

It seems in this country there is an innocent demographic that gets blamed for everything in society, here is another prime example.

[AndrewM]

Based on this logic I guess there should be a grizzly hunt coming soon along with a caribou hunt to follow! The more they spread out the higher the population will become!

[Tiguy]

This BKaufman seems to imply the problem started happening in 1980`s.
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The non-native animals were brought to Western Canada from Europe in the 1980s to be hunted for sport but were officially designated a pest in 2008 after numbers of them escaped from their enclosures.

I remember as a youngster back in the late '40`s, Dad having shot two on the farm we lived on. He said they were tame pigs that had escaped years earlier from some farms, turned wild and that there were more around.
I remember back in the mid 70`s seeing one south of Greencourt, deep in the bush while moose hunting.
So much for BKaufman`s theory.