The Fisheries and Conservation Department announced earlier that it would regularly capture and humanely destroy wild boars that haunt the urban area. The practice has caused controversy.
Following the capture operation on Shum Wan Road in Aberdeen in the middle of the month, 7 wild boars were anaesthetized and humanely destroyed on the spot. The Fisheries and Conservation Department took another action tonight (30th) in North Point. Department personnel and the police enclosed the Pak Fuk Road Recreation Ground At the entrances and exits, police officers were guarded by shields. At about 10 p.m. in the evening, several officers carried the pig carcasses wrapped in black plastic bags away from the scene.
A representative of the Fisheries Conservation Department told the media on the spot that the veterinarian used an anesthesia gun to capture two adult wild boars and treated them humanely with drugs. The representative did not respond to reporters' questions when he left and was scolded by the public.
Fishermen and Conservation Department officers lifted the wild boar carcass away from the scene.
(Photo by Chen Aoqi)
AFCD Senior Wetland and Animal Care Officer Zhang Jiasheng said after the operation that the AFCD carried out a wild boar capture operation at Pak Fuk Road, North Point at 6:30 in the evening to reduce wild boars accustomed to haunting and foraging on the site. The veterinarian during the operation One male and one female adult wild boar were captured with an anesthesia gun and treated humanely with drug injection.
Zhang Jiasheng said that the two wild boars were 97 cm and 145 cm in length, and weighed 26 and 67 kg.
Zhang Jiasheng, Senior Wetland and Animal Care Officer, Fisheries and Conservation Department (photo by Chen Aoqi)
Zhang Jiasheng stated that based on the past 4 years of experience, wild boar catching and contraceptive relocation operations cannot keep up with the breeding speed of wild boars. He also pointed out that the catching wild boars continue to return to the urban area, so it is necessary to continue the existing catching operations.
When Zhang Jiasheng left the customs, he did not respond to the media's questioning at the scene. He boarded the vehicle and left. During the period, there were criticisms from the public.
The personnel carry an anesthesia gun.
(Photo by Chen Aoqi)
The police officer is on guard with a long shield.
(Photo by Chen Aoqi)
On November 9, a wild boar bite a male auxiliary police officer at Tin Hau Temple Road in North Point. The calf and buttocks were injured. The right calf was severely injured. The wound was 6 inches deep with bones visible.
The AFCD subsequently announced that it would regularly capture and humanely destroy wild boars that haunt the urban area, but the practice caused controversy.
Concerned organizations and veterinary students have successively initiated joint signatures to oppose the AFCD's hunting and killing of wild boars.
As of November 17, the AFCD took an operation on Shum Wan Road, Aberdeen, and threw bread crumbs as bait. On the other side, the wild boar was surrounded by iron nets. After that, the officers fired anesthesia guns to subdue the wild boar. A total of 7 wild boars were captured during the operation. The veterinarian was on the spot Use drug injections for humanitarian destruction.
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