No Animal should be killed.

     

          

Wild boar status:

Wild boar is protected under Wildlife Protection Act 1972 and is covered under Schedule 3 of the Act. This timid species are often misunderstood. This controversial species also needs further specific legislation to protect very own survival. If we treat them as vermin and kill, will only result in elimination of this species from our polluted forests and its buffer zones. Further there is no major scientific study on this hapless animal which is usually ignored during wildlife census due to their large presence.

 

Wildlife activists and biologists have already termed the concept of vermin elimination as a disaster to ecosystem, but farmers opine the move would help them to enhance the crop yield in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and North India where the crop damages are high due to these animals.

Why wild boar needs to be protected:

Big predators like Tiger and leopard at times rely on wild boar and removal of them from the protected list will affect the food chain of predators. The old animals or lactating felines at times require more feed and during such times the wild boar is easy prey for such animals. Even for sub adult leopards, tigers and jackal they need boar as an alternate in their food chain.

 

The state governments are already providing compensation for the farmers, if wild animals including elephant and boar damage their crops. This system should be continued with more early release of compensation instead of killing the wild animals. Passing orders to kill the wild animals will entertain hunting and boar will end in the plates of meat consumers.

 

Reports of wild boar damaging forests and agricultural fields have to be understood in detail. These animals stray into agricultural lands due to depleting forests. This is a scientific issue which needs to be addressed with ecological solutions.

 

While the economical damage of the boar are only contemplated, they play the role of ingesting crops dropping the waste that are rich in nutrient which increase the soil richness, which is otherwise polluted through pesticides and insecticides.

For Animal Rights,

Dr.Jerold

Chairman

Animal Welfare Federation of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry