In China, the same problem of wild boar proliferation is a headache, and we have tried many solutions, and even hired professional hunters.
There will be a bounty of 2,000 yuan for killing one, but even this still does not interest the hunters.
The same problem exists in the United States, but they come up with a new idea that the local government can make some money without paying
They announced that tourists are paid to hunt wild boars, tourists only need to pay 3,000 US dollars, about 20,000 yuan, you can take a helicopter, hold assault rifles and submachine guns and other firearms in the air to hunt wild boars, the whole hunting operation lasts 2 hours.
The war between man and hunter is about to break out, who can better face 6.9 million wild boars?
As an invasive species, wild boar has no natural enemies after entering the United States, coupled with super reproductive ability and super adaptability, so that the United States is full of wild boar tracks.
According to 2016 statistics, there are 6.9 million wild boars in the United States, and if left unchecked, the wild boar population will double.
The proliferation of wild boar seriously affects local agriculture, most of their food is crops, not only eat but also with a chew, a wild boar can waste several acres of land in one night, resulting in reduced production or even no harvest.
According to media reports, wild boars cause billions of dollars in losses to the United States every year.
To this end, the United States has used many methods, as long as it is legal to carry a gun abroad, most farmers will hunt wild boar themselves.
Hunter Cy Brown and his partner James Palmer in Louisiana, USA, used a remote-controlled aircraft carrying thermal imaging to guide the ground to hunt wild boars, successfully killing 300 wild boars in 6 months.
Now the United States has developed a new project to mobilize enthusiasm: paid hunting of wild boars, if tourists want to experience a hunting dream, they can go to a company specializing in hunting activities to pay for hunting wild boars, charging 3,000 US dollars for 2 hours, equivalent to 20,000 yuan.
The local government still underestimates the reproductive capacity of wild boars, and the 6.9 million pigs in the country are reproducing so fast that hunters alone are still too slow to kill. In this human-pig war, in the end, the wild boar won.
In the mainland, gun control is extremely strict, and it is impossible to promote pay-for-kill projects. Wild hunting is extremely combative, and conventional methods are easy to accidentally injure people, so although some places on the mainland allow the killing of wild boars, they also need to hold a certificate to work, only for the purpose of ecological prevention and control, not to kill them all.
China's approach is more environmentally friendly.
On the mainland, because the natural enemies of wild boars are reduced, they will survive. In the wild, jackals, tigers, leopards and birds of prey catch wild boar cubs as well as juvenile wild boars, most of which do not survive to adulthood, so that the wild boar population is controlled.
Now China's solution is: reasonable hunting of wild boar in the short term, long-term solution or protection of the ecological chain and the return of the beast.
As a protected animal, jackal, tiger, leopard raptor, they can control herbivores that are prone to flooding in the wild, so that the ecological chain is stabilized, the number of wild boars will naturally be less, and there will be no more harm to one side.