According to reports, there are at least 20,000 wild boars in the territory of Tongjiang, Sichuan, which not only have a strong destructive power, but also have a strong aggressiveness, which has brought great harm and threat to the production, life and even life safety of the local people.
In order to ensure ecological balance and reduce the economic losses of the people, with the approval of the relevant departments, the local government recently launched a general battle to hunt wild boars. Allegedly, 750 wild boars are planned to be hunted locally.
Hunting wild boar is not a simple matter. According to some sources, the average body length of adult wild boars is 1.5-2 meters, the average shoulder height is 90 cm, the average weight can reach 90-200 kg, and the weight can reach up to about 400 kg.
At the same time, the data also said that the attack ability of wild boars is very strong, and the running speed of adult wild boars can reach 40-70 kilometers per hour, which is very powerful, and the threat of wild boars to animals (including humans) even exceeds that of bears and tigers.
Wildlife experts say the wild boar's deadliest weapon is its sharp fangs. The fangs of an adult wild boar are at least one or two centimeters long, like several large bananas. Once the wild boar runs, it can easily knock the adult into a broken bone, and once the wild boar bites, it can easily bite the human bone. Moreover, once the wild boar goes down, a hole the size of a tangyuan may appear on a person's body. At the same time, the athletic ability of wild boars is also very developed, if the wild boars take off vertically, they can jump up to a height of about one meter.
In view of this, it is difficult to deal with wild boars without professional hunters.
According to reports, for safety reasons, Tongjiang also sent dozens of professional hunting team members, and at the same time, twenty hunting dogs were used to chase and intercept wild boars. However, according to the hunting situation in these two days, not only was the effect not ideal, but also caused heavy losses.
According to professional hunters, they hunted a total of 8 wild boars in two days, but they caused the death and injury of 8 hounds, one of which was imported from abroad and was also bitten by wild boars in this hunting operation. It should be said that the loss is very large.
A professional hunter said that not to mention that people do not dare to go near the wild boar, even the hounds are very afraid of seeing the wild boar. Some hounds, after being attacked by wild boars, were so frightened that they no longer dared to go near wild boars.
Another professional hunter said that these wild boars run like they fly, very fast, hunting dogs are difficult to catch them, even if the hounds can catch them, but because the wild boar is much larger than the hounds, coupled with the thick skin, the hounds are also difficult to subdue the wild boars, so it seems that it is not possible to hunt wild boars by hunting dogs alone.
A professional hunter surnamed Chen said that according to the current situation, in order to achieve the goal of hunting 750 wild boars, it is necessary to use a shotgun, otherwise, it is difficult to complete the task. However, since there are no shotguns in the civilian sector and the relevant departments have no plans to use shotguns, the next step of the hunting operation will encounter many difficulties.
A person in charge of the Tongjiang County Wildlife Conservation Center said: According to the hunting situation in these two days, in order to complete the task of hunting wild boars, it is necessary to change the hunting method, otherwise, the task cannot be completed. However, in order to change the way of hunting, it is also necessary to apply, and the difficulty is still there.
When many netizens learned of this situation, they have suggested: the current wild boar is very harmful, the number of wild boars living in the wild is very large, the relevant departments should let go of their hands and feet, as soon as possible to use extraordinary means to hunt some wild boar, otherwise, the wild boar will seriously damage the ecological balance.
For the suggestions of netizens, can you agree?