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 are guarded by shields.
Sources at the scene stated that the officers were catching about 6 wild boars, and the Fisheries and Conservation Department will explain the case later.
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.
01News