Humane destruction of wild boar | Why Ye Liu is not humane, Chen Xuefeng and Fang Longfei advocate sterilization of isolated islands

In recent years, there has been a serious problem with wild boars in Hong Kong. Earlier, an auxiliary police officer was attacked during the drive of injured wild boars in North Point. The Fisheries and Conservation Department later announced that it would capture the wild boars in the urban area for humane destruction. The community has different opinions on this.

The New Democrat Party chairman Ye Liu Shuyi who is running for the Legislative Council's Hong Kong Island West constituency believes that humanitarian destruction has caused the least suffering to wild boars. "I don't understand that humanitarian destruction is not humane."

She suggested the establishment of a hunting team that is re-licensed and regulated to solve the problem of wild boar in the suburbs.

In the same election for Hong Kong Island West, the "independent democratic" Fang Longfei stated that he would not accept the killing of wild boars. He believed that the neutered wild boars should be sent away in groups after the capture. Therefore, education should be strengthened.

Chen Xuefeng, another candidate and vice chairman of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong, also believes that after the wild boar is captured, the government should consider sterilizing and returning it to deserted islands. It does not approve of hunting and killing. He believes that this issue is essentially "the relationship between the survival of humans and wild animals."

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Suk-yee Ip, who has participated in elections on Hong Kong Island for many years, believes that the AFCD’s approach is inadequate. It should conduct a comprehensive study to control the number of wild boars, and set targets to limit the number of wild boars in various districts, and reset hunting teams through licensing regulations.

She believes that the strictly regulated and trained hunting team will not cause too many problems with the use of firearms, and can cooperate with urban capture and humane destruction.

She emphasized that wild boars are not endangered species, and humane destruction has dealt with the wild boar problem in the least painful way.

Ye Liu believes that the main reason for the rampage of wild boars is that some people feed them, and that people who feed wild boars need to be punished. She said that she had seen foreign domestic helpers feed wild boars, and there were also "caring people". On Hong Kong Island, she pointed out that many wild boar clubs Looking for the leftover lunch boxes on the construction site, and dumping the trash can to find food, thinking that the authorities are not efficient in their work.

Fang Longfei advocates setting up fences on isolated islands　

The Islands District Councillor Fang Longfei believes that the AFCD should neuter wild boars after catching them and send them to live in isolated islands in groups, and consider using fences to prevent wild boars from escaping by waterways, and plant "crude" plants on the islands to provide a source of food. Staff to monitor operations.

Fang Longfei said that he always loves small animals and believes that even animals should be protected and life should be respected.

He mentioned the incident of the auxiliary police being attacked in North Point. It is expected that if a police officer did not take action, the wild boar would leave as long as it did not find food.

He believes that the increase in the number of wild boars in recent years is related to the increase in the number of outings and feeders during the epidemic, which has changed the habits of wild boars that originally appeared at night. Therefore, education should be strengthened.

Chen Xuefeng: There is always life

Chen Xuefeng also believes that the wild boars should be sterilized and sent to deserted islands. He believes that the ecology will not affect people and the method is more reasonable.

He emphasized that the feeding problems in the urban areas are serious, and the local districts should strengthen penalties and law enforcement.

Regarding the suggestion to reset the hunting team, Chen believes that even in the suburbs, anesthesia guns should be used, emphasizing that wild boars are "always alive."

He believes that this incident is "the relationship between the survival of humans and wild animals."

For the list of candidates in each district of the Legislative Council, please refer to the "Hong Kong 01" election website.

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