Perhaps you would never have imagined that wild boars belonging to national second-class protected animal have long been spreading quietly in some parts of China.
According to the data officially released by the China National Forestry and Grassland Administration in 2021, as of October of this year, my country has carried out wild boar hazard prevention and control work in 14 provinces and regions, and established multiple "wild boar hunting teams".
Media reports that wild boars are flooded in many places in my country
In addition, according to statistics from various places, the number of wild boars in my country has reached 41 million . With such a huge population, even wild boar hunters say they can do nothing.
Can you say that wild boars are really hard to compete with?
The domineering wild boar
wild boar is also called mountain boar , it is an omnivorous animal . Compared with the white and tender domestic pigs, the wild boar looks very "rough". Its body is covered with thick hair and long canine teeth grow in its mouth.
Wild boars have long canine teeth
However, it should be noted that there are big differences between female wild boars and male wild boars, and the female wild boars' canine teeth are not exposed.
Although most wild boars grow much slower than domestic pigs, if they eat well, their weight can also grow to about 400 kg .
The difference between wild boar and domestic pig
Therefore, this sturdy body, coupled with its extremely aggressive fangs, makes the wild boar very arrogant in the wild. Even hunters with rich hunting experience do not have many ways to deal with wild boars that are rough-minded and good at "pigs are advancing".
Wild boars are good at "pigs are advancing sharply"
In addition, wild boars have the dual identities of three-protected animals and national second-class protected animals , which makes people dare not kill them after meeting them. In this case, wild boars with strong reproductive and adaptability have recovered rapidly in their populations, reaching about 1 million.
The wild boars are rampant everywhere
It is worth mentioning that the wild boars are flooded in my country are not national, but are concentrated in local areas. Among them, the wild boar problem in , such as in Zhejiang, Sichuan, and Northeast China is more serious.
Take Zhejiang as an example. In 2000, there were only 29,000 wild boars in the province. However, with people's protection, the number of wild boars has more than tripled in 10 years, and by , it has increased to 100,000 in 2010.
The number of wild boars is increasing year by year
. In Tongjiang County, Sichuan Province, which frequently topped the news hot list due to the proliferation of wild boars in 2021, the number of wild boars in just one county reached more than 420,000 . These wild boars initially only appeared in remote towns and ate crops in farmers' fields. But later, its group grew stronger and stronger, and it began to "launch an attack" towards the city, causing serious losses.
Wild boar mother walking with her cubs in the city
Maybe you can't imagine that in the 21st century of civilization, you can still see wild boars running wildly among tall buildings .
According to statistics, if each of the 1 million wild boars in my country destroys 1 acre of cornfield every year, it only takes one year, and the loss of the cornfield destroyed by wild boars can reach .6 billion .
displays villagers who have destroyed the cornfield by wild boars
In addition, because wild boars are very irritable and are still omnivorous, it means that they will not only cause harm to the crops grown by people, but also cause people to bear economic losses, but also will pose a threat to the lives and safety of people in the flooded areas.
Village names repeatedly asked relevant departments for help in response to owner issues
In this case, the State Forestry Administration and the local governments in areas with wild boars flooded had to take action. They formulated a hunting plan for wild boars, and also organized a professional " pig hunting team " to start siege and intercept the wild boars.
So, what is the effect?
"Human Pig War" has broken out
Before the pig hunting operation was carried out, the local forestry department specially organized a large number of staff to go from street to alley to investigate the specific number of wild boars, and then determine what method to use to hunt them based on the average density of wild boars per square kilometer.
Take Tongjiang County, Sichuan Province, which has 20,000 wild boars as an example. After confirming that the number of wild boars is large but the distribution is not very dense, we chose to adopt the "hound hunting" method.
The hunting team that took the hunting dogs to go up the mountain to catch
Of course, in response to this, Li Bin, director of Tongjiang County Wildlife Protection Center, also said that although the hunting operation of has achieved certain results, 8 wild boars were caught in two days, this method is still too primitive. During the hunting process, two hunting dogs unfortunately died.
Therefore, some regions have chosen other methods, such as using hunting gun to hunt . In fact, due to the ban on the use of animal traps or electric shocks, the action to eliminate wild boars has created many difficulties, which makes wild boar hunters feel powerless. In addition, there are very few people with sufficient hunting experience, which makes wild boars in some areas still hard to compete with.
successfully caught the returned hunting team
In this case, even if wild boar hunting work is carried out in some areas, the results are not obvious enough.
For example, according to data disclosed by the State Forestry Administration, since the hunting operation in 2021, the number of wild boars successfully hunted is only 1,982 . Compared with 1 million, this number is like a hair pulled out, which is irrelevant.
This shows that we are at a disadvantage in the "Human and Pig War" that has already broken out.
So, how can we successfully solve these irritable wild boars that are rampant in the countryside? Perhaps, we can learn from the experience of more foreigners of wild boars.
The number of wild boars in the United States is also rising wildly
How to properly resolve the "human-pig conflict"?
Wild boars are distributed in many regions around the world, and wild boars everywhere have become more and more numerous as the number of human hunts decreases. For example, Spanish media pointed out that in 2021 alone, there were 1200 accidents related to wild boars in Barcelona . Whether it is a simple traffic accident or an attack on humans, wild boars have had a serious impact on people's normal lives.
wild boars snatched food on the streets of Barcelona
So people came up with many solutions to wild boars, such as poisoning, hunting, building fences, etc. Taking poisoning as an example, the United States and Australia and other countries have approved some lethal drugs to be used in the actions to deal with wild boars, including sodium nitrite , Fahualin , etc.
data shows that in Texas, Poche et al., a U.S., confirmed that low doses (0.005%) warfarin can effectively reduce wild boar population density (97.8%) and minimize the risk to non-target animals.
The five continents of the world's wild boars are effective in preventing and controlling conflicts between wild boars and humans
In addition, it is the use of hunting methods. Compared with foreign countries, my country's method of hunting dogs is indeed too backward. In areas with high wild boar population density in the United States, the government will even directly use the method of rapid air shooting in to solve wild boars, just like Australia uses helicopters to strafuse wild goat . This method can achieve relatively significant results at one time.
Of course, since the laws and policies of different countries are different, we cannot directly copy foreign methods, but should learn from them and combine them with local conditions to choose the most suitable method for pig extermination in our country.
First of all, makes the hunting legal system more sound. As we said in the previous article, wild boars have gold medals to avoid death, which makes people dare not attack them easily. However, when wild animals have seriously endangered people's survival, their "protection" needs to be changed.
"Human-pig conflict" still has to be human-oriented
For this, as early as 1952, Germany promulgated the "Hunting Law", giving hunters a certain limit on the disposal of wild animals.
Germany issued a hunter certificate to professional hunters
The second is scientifically formulates hunting plans, and do not "get rid of food because of choking" . Taking the hunting operation in Tongjiang County, Sichuan as an example, when the quality and number of local hunters are not high, they can try to borrow a "hunting team" from other regions. Only by allowing more professional hunting teams to take action can the wild boar flood be improved
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