Wild Boar Hunting ...in Ontario

[MikePal]

, while Eurasia just treats them like another game animal?

There is a huge and growing problem with Wild Boar in Europe....

The link below is to a 50 Page study identifying the same problems that they are having in the US...
Take note of the graphs starting on page 21...

1. Localized analyses indicate that wild boar populations have increased significantly across Europe over the past 30 years.

2. The increase in wild boar populations is affecting the distribution of diseases, affecting human and animal health, contributing to negative wild-boar interactions, and causing damage to agricultural crops and biodiversity. These effects also have a direct economic impact.

3. The number of road accidents involving wild boars is growing.

4. Hunting has not prevented the growth of wild boar populations. However, it is likely that with-out hunting the problem would be worse.

5. Evidence indicates that a combination of factors, including decreasing trends in the number of hunters, changing hunting practices, reforestation, increased food availability (mast, agricultural crops), affect wild boar population growth.

6. It is clear that the primary factor responsible for the increased wild boar populations in Europe is climate change. Milder winter and spring temperatures strongly influences reproduction (winter temperatures) and juvenile survival (spring temperatures). Climate change also influences food availability (mast and agricultural production) further reinforcing the favourable effects of climate change on the species.

7. Changing agricultural practices have created favourable conditions for the growth of wild boar populations:- The availability of multiple food sources;- Tranquillity and shelter which is no longer provided by a majority of forested areas

https://www.europeanlandowners.org/i...LD_BOAR_GB.pdf

[canadaman30]

The types of pigs down in the USA that are everywhere, can they even survive the winters up here?

[Snowwalker]

The types of pigs down in the USA that are everywhere, can they even survive the winters up here?

Yes, they survive in Northern Saskatchewan and Northern Alberta just fine. They have a good sized population of hogs west of Edmonton, it's no Tropical Paradise.

[MikePal]

can they even survive the winters up here?

They're flourishing in Manitoba for crap sake, of course they can handle the worst that winter can throw at them.

[canadaman30]

They're flourishing in Manitoba for crap sake, of course they can handle the worst that winter can throw at them.

I know nothing about pigs lol. Some I see them shooting in the southern states don't have much hair, deep snow much be a to move

[Mr.Boiler]

I’m kind of surprised we aren’t overrun with them in southern Ontario from Windsor to Ottawa and in between. A lot of farm land and areas to hide.


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[dilly]

A few years ago we were told a whole bunch of wild boar escaped up on the Bruce Peninsula. Locals said everyone was cleared to shoot them on sight by the MNR. We all watched an hoped to see them and many people talked like this was the beginning of the Porkopalypse...I never saw a track...no one I talked to saw anything. To this day people still let on they are all over the place up there because they see tracks with cloven hoof prints. Well, I think they are deer tracks.

[jaycee]

Honest question for anyone who’s knows (not trying to be a smart azz). How is it the US is being seemingly overrun and destroyed by invasive wild boar, while Eurasia just treats them like another game animal?
I remember being a little kid in the late 70s believing killer bees would be the death of everyone...could it be there is some level of hysteria going on here?

According to some , "the sky is falling , the sky is falling "

[jaycee]

Yes, they survive in Northern Saskatchewan and Northern Alberta just fine. They have a good sized population of hogs west of Edmonton, it's no Tropical Paradise.

One thing you must remember, the likely hood of them growing to the size and proportions that some of them do in the U.S. is that down south they feed / forage well 12 months of the year.
Up here in Canada they will have a hard time finding crops and good feed from Nov. till April, this shortage of food does have an great impact on their growing ability.
The cold 5 to 6 months will more than likely prevent them from breeding during the cold weather therefore will have fewer litters through the year, as they would not be like domestic swine raised in warm barns.

[werner.reiche]

I think wild boar are having a pretty tough time getting established in Canada.
Manitoba has had wild boar since the 1980's, and over 30-40 years, the population is about 50 now.
Last reported kill was in 2014.

Similar in Ontario - they don't do as well up here as in the southern states - so while they can survive, they can't reproduce at a rate that will every let them get out of hand.

https://www.manitobacooperator.ca/cr...-the-increase/

http://wildboarcanada.ca