A wild boar bite a male auxiliary police officer in North Point last week. The AFCD subsequently announced that it would regularly capture and humanely destroy wild boars that haunt the urban area. This practice has caused social controversy.
This (17th) night the AFCD took action on Shum Wan Road in Aberdeen. At about 7 pm, the police used iron horses to seal Shum Wan Road near the Yacht Club to the sailing road. Afterwards, AFCD staff dropped bait. On the other side, the wild boar was surrounded by iron nets. After that, the personnel fired anesthesia guns. A small wild boar fell to the ground immediately, and the other larger wild boar was shot twice and was unable to float on foot.
AFCD officers then carried away the fainted wild boar.
Huang Haoxian, the secretary of the Hong Kong Wild Boar Concern Group, attended the scene to protest and rushed into the blockade and was dragged away by personnel.
The Fisheries and Conservation Department stated that the veterinarian used an anesthesia gun to capture 7 wild boars in the operation tonight and used drug injections for humane destruction. The operation was completed at 10 pm.
Staff from the Fisheries and Conservation Department cast bait on one side, and surrounded the wild boar with iron nets on the other.
(Photo by Liao Yanxiong)
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At 11 o'clock this morning, when a citizen was passing Shum Wan Road near the entrance of Ocean Park Water World, they found 5 wild boars on the lawn beside the pedestrian road, so they called the police for help.
After the police arrived at the scene, they found five wild boars lying on the side of the road, sleeping soundly, and several construction workers nearby took pictures.
The police officers then inspected from a distance and notified the AFCD staff.
Huang Haoxian, secretary of the Hong Kong Wild Boar Concern Group, attended the scene to protest, rushed into the blockade and was dragged away by personnel.
(Photo by Chen Aoqi)
Wong Ho-yin, director of the Hong Kong Wild Boar Concern Group, attended the protest. He claimed that in the North Point wild boar attack, the wild boar was injured and forced into poor alleys to protect himself. He hoped that the public would understand that wild boars would not actively attack humans.
Wong Ho-yin also criticized the government for mismanagement and failed to increase resources to treat animals. He believes that the government and the department should add a cooling-off period to the policy instead of "one size fits all."
During the period, Huang Haoxian rushed into the blockade and was pulled away for search.
Fishery and Conservation Department urges not to feed wild boars
A spokesman for the Fisheries and Conservation Department said that because people often feed wild boars on Shum Wan Road, they are used to haunt the roads there and demand food from passers-by and even chasing vehicles.
From 2018 to October this year, the AFCD carried out 12 capture and relocation operations in the area of the above site, relocating 35 wild boars to remote rural locations, and carried out contraception or sterilization for 27 wild boars, except for capturing and contraception Or the relocation operation failed to effectively control the wild boar nuisance, and large groups of wild boars continued to appear or even gather in the area, posing a danger to the citizens and road users.
The Fisheries and Conservation Department stated that it will continue to give priority to wild boar catching operations to deal with places where a large number of wild boars are infested and where wild boars have injured people or pose a danger to the public.
The spokesperson also urged the public not to feed wild boars under any circumstances. He pointed out that wild boars are not pets but potentially dangerous large wild animals. Feeding activities will attract wild boars to haunt or even gather in urban areas, which may not only cause danger to themselves, It will also endanger the safety of other citizens and cause nuisance to the daily life of the general public.
Wild boars also have the opportunity to spread common human and animal diseases, such as tuberculosis, hepatitis E, influenza A and streptococcus suis infection, which pose risks to public health.
There were wild boars roaming on the pavement before the action.
(Photo by Chen Aoqi)
The assistant director once said that 5 operations per month were aimed at wild boars used to infested urban areas
In the evening, wild boars were seen walking slowly on the road at the scene, sometimes close to the pavement for food, and sometimes lying on the pavement.
The Fisheries and Conservation Department stated earlier that under the new strategy, the department will conduct wild boar capture operations every month, saying that it will use anesthesia guns to capture target wild boars and carry out humane destruction, where wild boars are infested in large numbers, have injured people or pose a danger to the public. , Will be processed first.
The Assistant Director of Fisheries and Conservation Department, Chen Jianfeng, said earlier that the department would conduct regular operations five times a month. It also claimed that the operations were only targeted at wild boars habitually haunting urban areas and would not catch wild boars in the suburbs.
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