“We are the hot spot in Canada by far,”
Brook said.
To view the latest mappings online, people can download Google Earth on their computers, then apply any one of the layers available on the Canadian Wild Pig Research Project Facebook Page to see what the overall distribution of wild pigs looks like for any location, including rural municipalities.
“It gives you the ability to see what is going on on the ground,” Brook said.
As part of his team’s research work in the project, they used trail cameras, GPS trackers and conducted many interviews of first-person sightings to gather information.