An Associate Professor with the University of Saskatchewan says wild pigs are easily the most destructive invasive large mammal on the plant. Manitoba Pork, in partnership with the federal and provincial governments, has launched its "Squeal on Pigs" campaign, an initiative that encourages the public to report sightings or evidence of wild pigs.
Dr. Ryan Brook, an Associate Professor in the Department of Agriculture and Bioresources with the University of Saskatchewan, says wild pigs already occupy about one million square kilometers within Canada and their populations are expanding.
Clip-Dr. Ryan Brook-University of Saskatchewan:
Wild pigs are in a totally different category than any other large mammal. They reproduce normally six young per liter but they can have multiple liters per year. In Manitoba or anywhere in Canada we have elk, deer, moose, caribou. They'll have, four would be outrageous for any one of those species and once per year in a narrow three-week window. With pigs, they're reproducing continuously and so your females are having multiple liters per year of six young.