bySneha Mahaleon 16 August 2021

https://india.mongabay.com/2021/08/sustainable-strategies-needed-to-manage-human-wild-boar-conflict-in-goa-experts-say/

• In July, Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant initiated the process to declare the wild boar as vermin in the state. Previously, Uttarakhand and Bihar have declared the wild boar as vermin too.
• The wild boar regularly enters farmlands in these states, significantly damaging crops and this is leading to growing conflicts between the species and humans.
• Scientific research and stakeholder commitment are key to the development of appropriate and sustainable strategies for both resolving the problem and conserving different ecosystems and their wildlife inhabitants, indicate experts.

Over five years ago, farmers groups in Goa proposed that four species – the Indian wild boar (Sus scrofa cristatus), rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta), gray langur (Presbytis entellus) and the Indian porcupine (Hystrix indica) – be declared as ‘vermin’, a category that the government can assign to certain…