Edmonton and the Alberta government are working on a response strategy to deal with a potential incursion of wild pigs into the city
Photo by Provided by Ryan Brook, University of SaskatchewanUniversity of Saskatchewan professor Ryan Brook, who has been researching wild pigs in the Canadian Prairie provinces for more than a decade, refers to wild pigs as an “ecological trainwreck.”
“The reason we have pigs established in Western Canada so firmly now is because we lost the thread somehow on the core issue of invasive species, especially wild pigs. You have to have a really good detection system, then … you have to react really quickly and really aggressively.”A public reporting system that leads to quick action is essential, or else people will stop calling for help, he said.
“The problem is pigs move so fast and they’re so elusive, and often entirely nocturnal, that you can have pigs and not know about it, and if you hear about one they can also move and disappear,” he said. A story from the Edmonton Journal archives describes encounters with wild pigs in the North Saskatchewan River Valley in the late 1990s.Although neither the city nor the province was aware of it, pigs have been seen in Edmonton before, Edmonton Journal archives show.
The animals were seen roaming through golf courses, rooting in ditches, strolling in meadows, and scurrying across highways as drivers avoided them.Article content
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