An auxiliary police officer was bitten by a wild boar while on duty last week. The Fisheries and Conservation Department later announced that it would capture and humanely destroy wild boars in the urban area.
Wong Ho-yin, secretary of the Hong Kong Wild Boar Concern Group, described the new policy as equivalent to "killing order" and "civilization retrogression" on the Hong Kong and Taiwan program "Millennium" today (15) and urged the government to withdraw.
He pointed out that the AFCD had not consulted the public and animal organizations beforehand, describing the implementation as urgency.
The Concern Group stated that it was because some people were feeding wild boars that caused them to appear in the urban area. They believed that resources should be increased for inspections and sterilization operations.
From time to time, wild boar nuisance cases have been recorded in various districts in Hong Kong.
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Wong Ho-yin said that the AFCD’s humane destruction of wild boars is a "kill order," which is believed to have been implemented intentionally early in the morning. However, the public and animal organizations were not consulted beforehand, describing the implementation as urgent.
He pointed out that the wild boars in the urban areas were fed by people and the food waste from the garbage bins had not been disposed of, which caused the wild boars to go out to the urban areas to search for food.
The Law Enforcement Concern Group Supports the Expansion of No-Feeding Areas for Wild Boars in Hidden Places
In response to the problem of wild boars, the Fisheries and Conservation Department plans to study and amend the "Wild Animal Protection Ordinance" to expand the no-feeding areas for wild animals and prohibit artificial feeding of wild animals in order to reduce the number of wild boars and their nuisance.
Wong Ho-yin supports the expansion of the relevant scope, saying that the current no-feeding areas are mainly in country parks and are not places where wild boars often haunt. However, because some people feed wild boars in hidden places from time to time, the AFCD is difficult to enforce the law.
About 10% of wild boars have been neutered, advocating a cooling-off period for the humanitarian destruction policy
He pointed out that the Fisheries and Conservation Department had started to inject contraceptive injections or sterilize wild boars in 2017. At that time, the policy was supported by the public and about 10% of wild boars had been contraceptive.
He believes that instead of implementing a "kill order", the authorities should set a cooling-off period to increase the AFCD's resources for inspections and sterilization operations.
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Southern District Councillor Liang Jin’s guide to wild boars in the area is serious due to the proximity of country parks and the many narrow footpaths in the area.
He said that he received short messages from citizens reporting the situation almost daily, and they had different opinions on the measures in response to different levels of nuisance.
He believes that the effectiveness of the AFCD's contraceptive sterilization policy is low. He also reported to the AFCD because of a wild boar, and he eventually had to wait 6 hours before someone arrived.
Citizens in Southern District say that someone drives a car to feed and promotes penalties
Ms. Chen, who lives in the southern district, called the program and pointed out that the wild boars in the southern district are mostly found on the roadside and near the playground. Someone has ever seen someone drive a car to feed the wild boar.
She believes that the wild boars in the urban area are fed by people, so it is necessary to increase the penalties for those who feed the wild boars and control the number of wild boars.
Ms. Leung, who also lives in the southern district, said that she had seen wild boars eating boxes in the city, and her private car had been tricked by wild boars.
She pointed out that she saw someone driving to Nanfeng Road to feed wild dogs, and questioned her behavior to lure wild boars into the urban area.
Citizen Ms. Huang also said that she saw wild boars during hiking, saying that they generally would not attack humans unless they encountered provocative actions.
She believes that the authorities should target the behavior of feeding wild boars, such as increasing penalties.
The Concern Group initiated a joint agreement to approve the policy of humane destruction. Pigs "survive is damned" and urged to withdraw [audit report] The AFCD has never tested wild boars for African swine fever. The total number of cases of feeding wild animals is 78 wild boars. The wild boar hunting team has become a history. The Fisheries and Conservation Department announced that it will no longer renew the license hunting captain: helpless