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Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem?
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this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2025
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Yea.... please don't get the two mixed up and spread harmful info online. The wild boars here are dangerous, if you are out walking in the woods and stumble upon one, they won't always run. They will try and hurt you and the tusk on these guys are dangerously sharp and can punch through skin like it's butter.
On top of the danger part. They're also super destructive to the environment, and we're not talking just about crop loss either.
It's fairly easy to keep them in check though.
It's really not, boars can breed multiple times per year, have litters between 2 and 12, and can breed as early as 6 months old.
It takes lots of effort to keep a population stable, actually eliminating them is very difficult.
In Hungary hunters love them. You get money for every boar shot and they make an okay stew.
They kill people and pets here in the US
There have only been like 5 human wild boar deaths in the US in the past 200 years: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/26/us/texas-woman-killed-feral-hogs.html
Wild boars tear up large swaths of forest floor in search of food. They wipe out native tubers and disrupt the carbon cycle, ultimately degrading the land into scrub.
They are also predators, they can weigh over half a ton, and they are violent when threatened.
the problem isnt the boar itself but the damage an outside threat poses to a delicate ecosystem
i think controlling domestic pets is also an issue and im a huge advocate for indoor only, but boars will not integrate in forests here the same way they would in japan. im not an advocate for killing nor do i think it would work, but TNR efforts may help the same way it does with stray cat populations