European Warming Sends Wild Boar Numbers Soaring

[marmar]

By Paul Brown, Climate News Network




LONDON—Wild boar populations in Europe are getting out of control—and scientists are blaming climate change.

There are now millions of wild boar spreading out from their preferred woodland habitat, moving into city suburbs, and even crossing national boundaries to countries that had thought they were extinct.

In some countries, notably France and Germany, which have always had wild boar populations in their forests, they are a major cause of road accidents.

France has an estimated two million boar, and the German state of Hesse alone has 180,000. Berlin, the German capital, is erecting boar fencing around its borders in an attempt to keep the animals out of the city.

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The scientists believe that the increasingly frequent mild winters in Europe and the extra production of acorns and beechnuts by trees are aiding boar survival rates. Both factors are the result of climate change, they say. ...............(more)

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/european_warming_sends_wild_boar_numbers_soaring_20150820

[dorkzilla]

1. Yummmmmmm....Cinghaile!

I love a wild boar ragu over pasta, or roasted with apple....yummmmm.

This may be the only upside of climate change (I kid, I kid!!!!).

[NV Whino]

2. Where,s Palmer when you need him

I guess wild boar isn't glamorous enough.