Another wild boar plague!
With the strengthening of environmental protection in our country, the number of wild animals is constantly recovering. However, due to the recovery speed of large carnivores populations is not as fast as that of herbivores, and the lack of four major beasts such as "jackals, tigers and leopards" in some places, some organisms have begun to flood.
Wild boar is one of the leaders, in recent years the number of wild boar population continues to rise, in order to find food, some wild boar will go down the mountain to the place of human activities, even eat with Ho Ho can waste several acres of land in one night, the contradiction between man and pig continues to intensify. However, limited by the identity of the wild boar's "three protected" animals, for a long time, people could only watch the wild boar waste crops, but there was nothing they could do.
Nowadays, many places have noticed the phenomenon of wild boar infestation, and the relevant departments have begun to prepare for orderly hunting according to the local environmental capacity and the number of wild boar populations.
Among them, there are 20,000 wild boars in Tongjiang County, Sichuan (data at the end of 2020), and after evaluation, the local government decided to plan to kill 750 wild boars by the end of the year.
Some people will think that hunting wild boar is very easy, but in fact, in order to protect local wild animals, hunting teams can not take poisoning, animal clips, power grids and other ways to hunt, can only accurately hunt wild boar. This requires a professional hunting team to be able to complete the hunting mission.
Wild boar aggression is very strong, as the saying goes: one pig, two bears and three tigers, although the wild boar is an omnivore, but the degree of danger is not worse than the tiger, hunting wild boar must be equipped with professional hunting dogs and shotguns, and also a shot can kill the shotgun, otherwise the wild boar skin is thick, a shot can not kill it, it will angrily attack the surrounding people and hounds, resulting in hounds and people injured, and even death.
According to the staff who round up wild boars: "Ordinary hounds, rabbits, chamois are decent, and wild boars fight, they will not be useful, but they will be bitten to death by wild boars." ”
But even the top hounds are very dangerous when hunting wild boars, and on November 11, one of the hunting team's hounds, which had just been imported from abroad and was worth up to 60,000 yuan, was killed.
Because the difficulty of hunting wild boars is very high, even for professional wild boar hunting teams, hunting wild boars is difficult, 4 hunters each have a shotgun, plus 7 excellent hounds, in two and a half days, finally killed 8 wild boars.
For the wild boar disaster in Tongjiang, Sichuan, foodies said that as long as they are free to eat, the wild boar problem can be solved. To the disappointment of foodies, however, wild boar meat is not allowed to be sold.
At present, the measures taken by Sichuan Tongjiang for wild boar meat are: digging deep pits on the spot, disinfecting them with quicklime and burying them, and carrying out pollution-free treatment.
In this regard, many people expressed puzzlement: "Wild boar meat is so delicious, why should it be treated without pollution", "If all 750 heads are treated without pollution, what a waste."
In fact, the reason why wild boar meat is not allowed to enter the market circulation, but pollution-free treatment, is mainly for food safety.
Wild boar living environment is uncontrollable, in the process of living in the wild may be exposed to pathogens, and most of the wild animals have not undergone safety quarantine, which means that eating wild animals has a certain risk, and may even lead to the occurrence of infectious diseases.
For example, the source of the SARS virus is the Chinese chrysanthemum bat, and the SARS virus in the Chinese chrysanthemum bat is transmitted to the civet cat, and after the mutation in the civet cat, it is transmitted to humans.
But from another point of view, even if the civet cat carries the SARS virus that can infect humans, if the human does not provoke the civet, but keeps a distance from it, it will naturally be safe.
In addition to the SARS virus, there are a variety of infectious diseases are also transmitted to humans through animals, such as: plague, rabies, etc., it is precisely because of this, our country issued the "Decision on Completely Banning Illegal Wildlife Trade, Eliminating the Bad Habit of Eating Wild Animals, and Effectively Protecting the People's Life, Health and Safety", and wild boars are also wild meat, so wild boar meat can not enter the market circulation, but needs to be treated without pollution.
For most carnivores, they do not reject the remains of newly dead animals, and even bears can eat scavengers. Since wild boar meat cannot be eaten by humans, why not feed wild boar meat to carnivores?
In fact, it is not that wild carnivores are not eaten, but where wild boars are flooded, and there are generally fewer carnivores. Wild boars flood precisely because there are fewer predators in the local ecological chain and it is impossible to control the wild boar population.
Second, if the remains of wild boars are not eliminated by carnivores or scavengers as soon as possible, their remains will become bacterial petri dishes, which may contaminate the surrounding water or soil, causing diseases to other local animals.
Of course, if the number of wild boars hunted locally is large, then after strict inspection and quarantine, these wild boar meat can be handed over to professional departments for processing, processing them into animal feed, and reused.
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