The feral pigs show up in treatment – Swedish Dagbladet

The feral pigs show up in treatment – Swedish Dagbladet

When Frank Ryden in Askim outside Gothenburg would take the morning bus to work early in the week, he got a nasty surprise. On the road stood a flock of wild boar kids – and a sow that reacted with lightning speed.

– She began to move. I panicked and ran to the bus stop. It was too low, so I jumped up along with a loud noise barriers and hung me stuck in the fingertips, says Frank Ryden.

– Where the beast stood and grunted with black eyes. Hell what I was afraid.

Automobile Accidents, double-booked farmland and ruined gardens. The wine’s wild rampage increasingly evident in many parts of the country. Herd animal is shy and keeps away any man. But the possibility – or risk – encounter swine increases, and it can be experienced as dramatic.

In the early 1980s there were less than 100 wild pigs in the country. Since then, the tribe has really got going.

– We have a population of at least 300,000, but it could be more, says wild boar expert Christer Pettersson at the Environmental Protection Agency.

As the strain growing so it pops up also in more parts of the country. Previously, the most common wild boar in southern Sweden. According Hunters Association, there are now also in Värmland, Örebro and Västmanland.

– Västra Götaland has also boar. Since the wild pigs have been stamping for a while at Dalälven. Now they are over, the boar is also north of the river, said Daniel ligne, nationwide jaktvårdskonsulent at Hunters Association.

If it is plenty of pigs’ favorite food – acorns – this year so they can live well and multiply even more. Then it will be tough, says Ligné.

– We hunters will have to chase all we have the energy and then some.

The pigs now shows up at water treatment is not surprising. In some parts of Europe have the animal even moved to town.

– There are ten thousand wild boars in Berlin who live at green slip roads to highways and parks. At night they go and look for food in the city dustbins, says Ligné.

Christer Pettersson urge anyone who wants to avoid close contact with the animal to remove the potential for feeding.

– This time of year, I want to draw particular attention to those who have gardens and plantation crops. Remove all fallen fruit and coordinate composting to not attract wild boar.