, we can often see wild boars foraging, but now, as the number of wild boars continues to decline sharply, they are no longer seen in many places.
wild boar foraging
in order to better protect wild boars, our country lists it as three protected animals , are protected by law, , but in the United States, it has become a rat crossing the street, everyone shouts and beats, the local even Encourage them to carry out large-scale hunting .
Americans hunt wild boars
are also wild boars, why is there such a big difference between the two countries?
wild boars were once widely distributed in our country, and they can be seen in many places. However, with the destruction of their living environment and the excessive hunting of humans , their numbers have decreased.
is currently mainly distributed in the northeast. The three provinces, Yunnan-Guizhou and Fujian provinces, considering that wild boars have important economic and scientific research value, in 2000, my country included them in the national key protected wildlife list.
wild boar
American wild boar is an alien species. It was previously brought to North America by European colonists as domestic animals for hunting purposes.
In the 1930s, they released wild boars into the wild and sent them to other areas to establish new hunting groups. This made hunters very excited, but they also planted the seeds for the current flooding situation.
Early hunters hunted wild boars
American wild boars were flooded with disasters
Because of the superior geographical environment and basically no natural enemies, wild boars were able to breed too quickly in the local area.
As early as the early 1980s, the government had always wanted to intervene in the wild boars, and a series of measures had been taken to this end, but every "human-pig war" ended with the American defeat. According to statistics, there are currently more than 6 million wild boars in the United States, and the number is still rising.
Distribution range of wild boars in 2009
They are distributed in 39 states in the United States and four provinces in Canada. They not only destroy historical sites, but also eat grains from good fields and destroy local water and soil resources. Wild boars are typical omnivores.
In the absence of food, even domestic animals such as calves and some wild animals are not spared. Ecosystems that can basically be bullied have been bullied all over. Wherever they go, there is a mess. There are many rare wild animals in the country. Plants suffered heavy losses, which seriously affected the local ecological environment.
destroys local water and soil
According to incomplete statistics, the annual economic loss caused by wild boar alone is as high as 1 billion US dollars, and the government also spends at least 4 million US dollars every year to control the number of wild boar , it is no wonder Americans They all hate them.
has seen the serious damage caused by wild boars to the local ecology, and more and more people have joined this "human-pig war", but the number of wild boars is still not effectively contained, and even increased instead of decreasing. Why is this?
wild boar flooding partial map
One is the superiority of wild boar itself.
wild boar has a very high IQ. In the "World Ranking", there are the top ten animals in the world with IQ, and pigs are on the list, even surpassing dogs.
is a high IQ creature, plus wild boar speed Fast and good endurance, it is not easy to kill them. Once the wild boar escaped human hunting, it will become more alert, which also brings a certain degree of difficulty to the Americans in hunting.
wild boar escaped from hunters
Second, wild boars have strong reproductive ability.
Wild boars can breed when they are about 6 months old. A sow can give birth to 4 to 8 piglets at a time, or even more. This also means that even in the short term, Americans can make wild boars. The number has dropped sharply to more than 70%,
, but once they are given a recovery period, their numbers can quickly recover as before. What's more, so far the United States has not reached the goal of eliminating 70% of the wild boar population, which is why the United States has been unable to eliminate wild boars. main reason. Z1z
wild boar breeding
In addition, some policies of the United States have also brought certain obstacles to the hunting of wild boar. BigEveryone knows that the United States implements private ownership of land ,
when the government wants to clean up wild boars, it also needs to negotiate with the landowners, which also adds cumbersome steps and affects the passivity of hunters. .
wild boars take to the streets
the threat of wild boars to humans
Some zoologists pointed out that because wild boars live in the wild, they eat a lot of things, and they carry a lot of bacteria, and parasites, which will not only harm the ecosystem, but also A threat to people's lives.
The appalling "poison spinach" incident in the United States was caused by wild boars. After they passed the vegetable field, the bacteria on their bodies were spread on the spinach they wanted to sell, and they were accidentally eaten by people. A total of more than 200 people were infected with E. coli, causing 3 deaths.
"Human Pig War" Americans defeated
To hunt and kill wild boar, the Americans did everything they could to. In the beginning, the United States tried to use toxic substances containing diluted warfarin to kill wild boars, but it was discovered that although this toxin would kill wild boars, it would also harm other wild animals such as condors , coyotes, etc. Finally had to give up this plan.
died of condors
. Later, the government dispatched helicopters to shoot them and encouraged the people to set up agencies to hunt and kill wild boars. But what I did not expect was that wild boars rose up to resist and would take the initiative to attack humans and retaliate wildly against those who hurt them. It also led to some hunters not daring to shoot at will without absolute certainty.
So why does the United States not build a large-scale wild boar processing plant to solve the problem of wild boar proliferation through export? Take China as an example. my country consumes a lot of pork every year. In 2019 alone, pork consumption reached 44.866 million tons, accounting for about 49% of the global proportion.
Pork Processing Factory
Before wild boars were not listed as three protected animals, many people would also eat wild boar. Logically speaking, the United States could completely export wild boars to China on a large scale to alleviate the local wild boars. Urgently, why has the United States not done this?
The United States dispatched helicopters to hunt wild boars
In fact, the United States has also tried to process and sell wild boars, but the effect was minimal. From 2004 to 2009, more than 460,000 wild boars were sent to processing plants to make meat products and sold to Europe and In Southeast Asia and other places,
, but according to this situation, 460,000 and more than 6 million wild boars have been eliminated in five years. It is still a question of whether they can eat them all. Z1z
and wild boars grow in the wild after all, and the number of bacterial parasites they carry is still uncertain. In addition, wild boars are too difficult to hunt and dare not mass production. Once the follow-up supply is insufficient, a series of problems caused by it will be difficult to solve.
hunts and kills wild boars
. More importantly, the domestic pig breeding industry in the United States is very developed, which is sufficient to meet domestic and external demand. In contrast, the United States will naturally choose domestic pigs with higher safety.
Today, the United States still does not have an effective way to eliminate wild boars, and the efficiency of hunting alone is too low, which has led to the unresolved flood of wild boars in the United States. If it were everyone, what solution would you think of?
