Who'd want that ugly thing staring down on ya ..hardly a 'trophy'.... HaHa..
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Who'd want that ugly thing staring down on ya ..hardly a 'trophy'.... HaHa..
https://www.foxnews.com/great-outdoo...nter-dies-boar
It would be one hell of a way to go.
Interesting article...thanx for sharing Trimmer.
One fact jumps out-Italy has -2 million wild boars(the real deal-not feral pigs)
Italy has 300.000 sqkm.
Texas alone 700.000 sqkm-Ontario alone 1 million...............hmmm
Understand bio diversity and native species and all-but:
Are wild pigs that bad then?No one hears Italy crying about wild pig problem....
Just saying.
They are crying in Rome about wild pigs.Quote:
Originally Posted by gbk
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/28/10411...e-streets-food
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Packs Of Ravenous Wild Boars Are Ransacking Rome
September 28, 2021 10:35 AM ET
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ROME — Rome has been invaded by Gauls, Visigoths and vandals over the centuries, but the Eternal City is now grappling with a rampaging force of an entirely different sort: rubbish-seeking wild boars.
Entire families of wild boars have become a daily sight in Rome, as groups of 10-30 beasts young and old emerge from the vast parks surrounding the city to trot down traffic-clogged streets in search of food in Rome's notoriously overflowing rubbish bins.
Posting wild boar videos on social media has become something of a sport as exasperated Romans capture the scavengers marching past their stores, strollers or playgrounds.
As Rome gears up for a local election this weekend, the wild boar invasion has been used as a political weapon to attack Mayor Virginia Raggi over the city's formidable garbage collection problems. But experts say the issue is more complicated and tied at least in part to a booming boar population.
Italy's main agriculture lobby, Coldiretti, estimates there are over 2 million wild boars in Italy. The region of Lazio surrounding Rome estimates there are 5,000-6,000 of them in city parks, a few hundred of which regularly abandon the trees and green for urban asphalt and trash bins.
Wild boars cross a street in Rome on Sept. 24. The city's overflowing rubbish bins have been a magnet for the boars, which can weigh up to 100 kilos (220 pounds).
To combat their growing numbers, Lazio launched a program in 2019 to capture the beasts in park cages for slaughter, and last month approved a new decree to allow selective hunting of boars in some parks, which until now had been strictly forbidden.
Maurizio Giubbiotti, in charge of Lazio's parks, says the region needs to increase the boar cull from 700 over two years to at least 1,000 annually to get the situation under control.
In Italy's rural areas, hunting wild boar is a popular sport and most Italians can offer a long list of their favorite wild boar dishes, including pappardelle pasta with boar sauce and wild boar stew. But animal rights groups have been adamantly opposed to mass culling.
Those beliefs are not shared by some urban residents.
"I am afraid of walking on the sidewalk, because on one side there are the dumpsters for the rubbish and they (the boars) jump on me," said Grazia, a 79-year-old grandmother waiting outside an elementary school to pick up her grandchildren. She did not give her last name.
Just down the street, a family of wild boars was snorting through the trash.
Her concerns are not misplaced: Wild boars can weigh up to 100 kilos (220 pounds), reach 80 centimeters (2.6 feet) in height and measure 150 centimeters (5 feet) long, a not-insignificant threat especially to the elderly and young children.
"We have been invaded here," lamented Pino Consolati, who runs a restaurant on a busy street corner in Rome's Monte Mario neighborhood. He said families of wild boars routinely wander through his outdoor eating area looking for food. One day this week, he said, his sister found 30 boars outside her shoe store when she left at 8 p.m.
"It is not a pleasant situation," he said, shrugging his shoulders.
That's why you need a bayonet on the end of your gun just in caseQuote:
Originally Posted by trimmer21
Your looking at the picture the wrong way....how much unoccupied farmland does Italy have compared to Canada...?
Quote:
Originally Posted by gbk
Not sure what You mean-how much do You think they have?Quote:
Originally Posted by FISH-ON
Unsure why unoccupied farmland matters in this case .
2 milling wild pigs do 2 million wild pig worth of damage.
Or so they say-they do.
Texas has 2.6 million wild pigs for 700000 sq km.
Italy has 2 mil for 300000 sq km.
Numbers are numbers.
Plus-when they cry-they conveniently omit, lots of wild pigs in Texas or the USA are actually feral pigs.
Who to blame for that?
[QUOTE=Badenoch;1188524]They are crying in Rome about wild pigs.
Crying in Rome about wild pigs moving in is no different then crying in Bannf about Elk and Mule deer overruning the place,or in Toronto about coyotes.
Who cries outside the cities?
[QUOTE=gbk;1188558]Quote:
Originally Posted by Badenoch
N-o-o-o-o-body-y-y! At least,until the farms are getting all torn to h**l and diseases are contaminating domestic stock,then,all h**l will break loose. Politicians and bureaucrats that have bought in to bogus science will be heading for the hills.Quote:
Originally Posted by Badenoch
[QUOTE=trimmer21;1188570]No they won't run.Quote:
Originally Posted by gbk
How do you get rid of incompetence?
You promote them...lol