Canadian Wild Pig Research Project - CWPRG

26/11/2024

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31/10/2024

I was recently on the Swine It podcast.

31/10/2024

These are the two pigs hit 2 miles north of Austin.

30/10/2024

Someone hit two wild pigs near Austin, Manitoba. Anyone see the pigs? I have been trying to find someone to cut off an ear from each for me.

01/10/2024

I notice there are never any ancient cave paintings of salads

09/08/2024

Wreaking havoc across the country, the wild boar is destructive, adaptable and virtually unstoppable.

"University of Saskatchewan scientists have been documenting the spread of wild boars since the 1990s as the rogue pigs have infiltrated the Prairie provinces, southern and central Ontario, western Quebec and southern British Columbia. A 2019 study headed by Ryan Brook, lead researcher for the Canadian Wild Pig Research Project, found the feral pigs had increased their range by nearly 90,000 square kilometres per year between 2011 and 2017," writes Susan McClelland.

Learn more in our piece by Susan McClelland at the link below.
https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/mapping-the-rapid-spread-of-invasive-feral-pigs-across-canada/

🗺️: Chris Brackley

Canadian Wild Pig Research Project - CWPRG University of Saskatchewan

12/07/2024

https://t.co/dzmpUzOclk

12/07/2024

Anyone catch CBC news tonight? They were going to run a piece on wild boar farms in Saskatchewan. I hoped they used my quote that “this was a problem when Cheers was a popular TV show.” Honestly the province putting a moratorium on new wild boar games is like a moratorium on new Blockbuster video stores. I don’t see anyone l wanting a boar farm.

06/06/2024

Boris Boaraloff was a huge hit at Lakeview school this morning.

A bit of a whoopsy when I was showing them the skull and large bullet shaped piece of lead fell out..but no one noticed. Not sure if you can see but the skull has about seven bullet holes in it.

01/06/2024

I posted this as a comment but re-posting it here again: I know LOTS of guys who buy land to hunt, get permissions, and/or hunt crown land. People complaining about no one giving permissions mostly are too lazy to put the work in and just whine on facebook about it to be honest. I don't know many fishermen or moose hunters posting the exact location of their best spots. The only real option is to do the work. No one is going to tie a pig to a tree for you and give you directions.

01/06/2024

Once we got 10,000 followers I will drop in a pig hunting map and make a GoogleEarth file available too.

01/06/2024

This relationship breakup did not go well.

31/05/2024

Pretty interesting story dropped today in Canadian Geographic.

Canadian Geographic is a publication of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. The Society is dedicated to making Canada better known to Canadians and to the world.

25/05/2024

My Quirks and Quarks interview is posted on the cbc website- Facebook won’t let me post the link though

25/05/2024

My Quirks and Quarks interview is here:

Wild pigs that have escaped or been released from farms have established self-sustaining populations in the prairies and central Canada and are wreaking havoc on farms and wilderness landscapes alike. A new study, led by Ryan Brook at the University of Saskatchewan, has tracked pigs to try to unders...

23/05/2024

I will be on Quirks and Quarks this week talking about, yes you guessed it, invasive wild pigs.

Saturday, May 25th starting at noon EDT [10am here in Saskabush/Alberta, 11am Manitoba].

It was a ton of fun.

22/05/2024

20/05/2024

https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fieldandstream.com%2Fconservation%2Fwild-pig-habitat-connectivity-study%2F&h=AT2dEfw_pX1gFdT9p_YXrGCTekZzIT87Gr_DlqatNY4KNuR3XgIyiB50DiFZoD8JyLfEZzXoGgcr2T_A2B6xlSs2-At4krsu8dD710tRfq6d7BTP-4i1UZcrtacyYV8PFg&s=1

A recent habitat connectivity study shows a serious likelihood of Canada’s invasive wild pigs moving south.