While the animal is more and more present throughout the territory, including the heart of the most urban centers, the Hong Kongs are deeply divided as to the attitude to adopt against this “fellow” invasive.
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Two or three times a week, around 6 pm, M Me Lam used to pour remnants of food into the small park located in its street in Wong Chuk Hang, industrial district In conversion in the south of Hong Kong Island, to bring off the boars of their surrounding hills. And they were pretty loyal to the rendezvous. It was therefore upset to learn that at least seven animals, among which perhaps some of its regulars, had been neutralized with anesthetic rifle, before being swept away to be stung.
Not far from there, the teams of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and the Protection of Nature (AFCD) had baited them with food, a few days earlier. This operation inaugurated the new strategy of the authorities to stop Hong Kong invasion by wild boars. Since then, other similar battles took place.
One month earlier, October 12, 2021, Leung SIU-FAI, the director of the AFCD, had given the alert to the Hong Kong Parliament, claiming that the control measures in place for four years, which consisted of To catch, sterilize and relocate animals to unbreated areas, were no longer enough. He asked for permission to eliminate the most invasive or aggressive animals. “People love wild boars too. We can do everything, we can not prevent them from feeding them. We are obliged to come to the great ways,” he said.
Complaints up
Because complaints related to wild boar, whose official population is estimated at 3,000 heads for the entire special administrative region, increased significantly: 562 for the first six months of 2021, compared with 401 for the same period in 2020. The specialties of the animal: to fuck the cans of garbage cans, even the most securely sealed in the sidewalks, plow the flowerbed flowers, interrupt road traffic … Some attacks have also taken place recently. In October 2021, a policeman was overthrown and bitten by a wild boar he was trying to catch Tin Hau. And in September, the mother of the famous diva of pop Coco Lee, aged 83, was seriously injured by a specimen weighing between 100 kg and 150 kg, while she was walking in her street, Barker Road, in The Crested Neighborhood of Peak.
mid-December, the online newspaper Stand News also made the portrait of a farmer whose corn fields of Ngau Tam Mei (Yuen Long District), within the new territories, had been devastated twice in one week by a horde of wild boar. His losses amounted to 60% of his harvest, now preventing him from buying the barwly needed to protect his fields of future incursions.
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