On the evening of October 19, a woman surnamed Xu encountered three small wild boars near the Meihua Valley in the southern foothills of Nanjing's Purple Mountain, and used her mobile phone to take a video of them "wandering" on the road. I saw these three little wild boars wandering leisurely on the road, not panicking at all because this was the city.
Ms. Xu was afraid that the three small wild boars would be hit by other owners who were not detected in time, so she drove them into the woods. In recent years, there are wild boars around purple mountain from time to time, and the news of encountering wild boars is not new, in June 2019, there were morning exercise citizens found two palm-sized wild boar cubs on the Purple Mountain Trail; in October 2020, there was a large wild boar of about 200 pounds "making a big fuss" at a milk tea shop near Olympic Sports Avenue, which was "arrested" by the police four hours later. Usually, wild boars that are caught in this way are taken away for harmless treatment, or released or used for scientific research.
As the number of wild boars grew, experts from Nanjing's greening department and the Academy of Forestry set up 142 infrared cameras in Nanjing's woodlands to observe and record the activities of wild animals, not only for wild boars, but for all wild animals. However, the monitoring found that the number of wild boars in the mountain forests near Nanjing has increased, the density of wild boars has exceeded the reasonable standard of two per square kilometer, and wild boars lack natural enemies, so occasionally wild boars will forage in the city, and some food can still be found in the garbage and other debris discarded by humans.
The increase in the number of wild boars shows the effectiveness of environmental protection in Nanjing, with the process of industrialization, more and more people move to live in urban areas, wild boars reproduce faster without the influence of people, and at present, a relatively large problem facing China's natural ecology is that the beasts are less skilled, which is also a factor in the flooding of wild boars. And this is due to the result of human activities in history, after all, people still belong to animals, although they can plant, livestock, fish and hunt, but all things grow by the sun.
All kinds of natural environment traces back to the end is still green plants, people want to develop, must occupy a certain amount of land, woodland, water area, which will inevitably squeeze into the activity space of wild animals. Therefore, the historical human activities have caused an imbalance in the ecological environment, and in the past, when the development was more extensive, development was the first priority, so sometimes the existence of wild animals was ignored or not paid attention to. Now it is different, with the determination of the new development model, we must not only develop, but also protect the environment, so that man and nature can develop in harmony.
Wild boars are increasing in number at this time due to the lack of natural enemies, and their own foraging, adaptability, and reproductive ability are very strong. There are more than 2 per square kilometer in the nanjing mountain forest, indicating that the density of wild boars has been relatively large, and in the absence of natural enemies, it is easy to cause wild boar flooding. Previously, Henan and Shaanxi have formulated hunting plans, limiting the area to limit the number of wild boar, by professional hunters to hunt wild boar, by reducing the number of wild boar flooding, Nanjing's forestry and other departments are also agreeing on disposal measures.
In the past, some people have hunted pigs and wild boars for slaughter and sale, and after the wild boar is determined to be a three-animal animal, unless the wild boar endangers people and other situations, it is generally not allowed to kill the wild boar without permission. Publicity and education are also deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so there are now many fewer people hunting wild boars privately. So is it possible to reduce the number of wild boars by appropriately liberalizing hunting and letting people hunt wild boars to eat meat? Judging from the hunting ability of humans, this method can certainly be effective, but it is easy to cause over-hunting.
The logic behind it is this, the wild boar hunting formulated in Henan and other places in Shaanxi Is a hunting activity that limits the number of time and place ranges, and the wild boar hunted is not for slaughter and meat, but mainly to suppress the number of wild boar populations, in the past, this aspect was limited to 100 heads and so on. With the participation of professionals and regulators, this figure is generally not exceeded. However, if you let people hunt, human beings are very active, and it is not certain when and when and what way to hunt wild boar, which is easy to over-catch.
And private hunting will also cause certain dangers, on the one hand, it is attacked by wild boars, the size of wild boars is large, the strength is also very strong, large-sized wild boar even bears, tigers can not be easily put down, but also occasionally wild boar collisions lead to people injured news, private hunting may expose themselves to the attack range of wild boars, causing danger; on the other hand, people are still smart, may be under the set or trap hunting wild boar, traps people know the location, but others do not necessarily know, so it may cause danger to others.
The biggest problem is that wild boars have more important economic, scientific research, and ecological values, so they still belong to the three animals, and they need to pay a certain amount of effort to protect them, to avoid wild boars from flooding because of hunting, China has a large population, and it is really necessary to let go of the hunting of wild boars, it is too easy to eliminate them, and the ecological disasters that can be brought about also need a longer period of time to calm down. Therefore, how to deal with wild boars requires all localities to formulate appropriate measures on the basis of more detailed investigations to reduce the contradiction between humans and pigs and reduce the number of wild boars.