An Alberta trapping program has resulted in 380 wild boars killed since 2018. More than 300 of the animals have been killed since the 2021 launch of an awareness campaign called Squeal on Pigs.
"I think the jury is still out on whether or not this environment – a mountain environment without swaths of agriculture – could actually sustain a population of wild pigs or not.”
As a cross-breed of wild boars and domestic pigs continue to populate across Canada, scientists warn that the invasive species might become a larger problem.