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Dec 21, 2017 · There was an obvious culprit: wild boars. They snap off saplings to use for nests, they trample seedlings, and they churn up the soil. But why was the forest teeming with pigs? Could a decline...
Mar 30, 2022 · IPOH, March 30 — A total of 1,736 wild boars and 16,631 monkeys have been culled since last year for disturbing farmers’ plantations and causing disturbances to the public, the State Legislative Assembly was told today.
The Eurasian Wild Pig inhabits primary and secondary forest and will also forage in adjacent cleared or agricultural areas. In parts of Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore the species occurs in mangroves. The Eurasian Wild Pig is a food source for Tiger and Leopard.
Elephant frugivory and wild boar seed predation of Irvingia malayana, a large-fruited tree, in a rainforest of Peninsular Malaysia. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 67, 160-170. http://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/app/uploads/2018/11/RBZ-2019-0013.pdf
Here we report on the mass mortality of native wild boar (Sus scrofa) in Peninsular Malaysia. ASF was confirmed at our long-term study site in February 2022 and wild boar carcasses increased >100-fold in June 2022 compared to prior years.
May 28, 2023 · Licensed and traditional hunting for wild boars is allowed in certain areas outside protected forests and reserves in Sabah. The hunting restriction, conservationists say, was helping the recovery of the boars in the wild.
Sep 15, 2021 · Our findings provide new insights into the ecology of wild boar that are important for supporting the conservation of wild boar populations in Peninsular Malaysia and elsewhere in the tropics. Firstly, irrespective of forest type, we found that wild boars could thrive in all forestry reserves.
