A bounty program touted as a remedy to Alberta's wild boar problem has resulted in zero kills in the five months since the province declared open season on the invasive swine. Since April 1 ...

Of course, once you start to notice, there are wild boar stories everywhere. Wild boars were in Alberta’s Elk Island National Park. Irradiated wild boars were roaming Fukushima and Chernobyl.

Two provincial efforts targeting Alberta’s wild boar population didn’t kill a single one of the troublesome swine, says a government official. This is the latest frustration in Alberta’s ...

But it's known they have established themselves in north-central Alberta, particularly in a band stretching from Whitecourt to Lloydminster, said Hannah McKenzie, a wild boar specialist with ...

Wild pig bounty program wraps. Now what? A provincial bounty program targeting the wild pig population has wrapped up, albeit seemingly without a single kill.

the wild pigs roaming Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba pose a new threat. They are often crossbreeds that combine the survival skills of wild Eurasian boar with the size and high fertility of ...

Manitoba and Alberta, he said. "Wild boar farmers were told to cross the wild boar with domestic pigs to make a bigger and longer animal," Brook said. He said a domestic pig has an extra set of ...

Then, in 2001, the boar-meat market plunged. Some farmers, unable to sell their stock, simply released their hybrid pigs into the wild. Today those pigs’ descendants roam the Canadian prairie ...

But it's known they have established themselves in north-central Alberta, particularly in a band stretching from Whitecourt to Lloydminster, said Hannah McKenzie, a wild boar specialist with Alberta ...