Canada has been dealing with feral pig problems for decades. What was once considered a problem shared by the United States ...

When a nuclear disaster empties a landscape of people, nature doesn’t politely wait for instructions. It moves in. After the 2011 meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, entire ...

Feral swine are causing havoc across the United States, inflicting an estimated $1.5 billion in damage annually to crops, ...

Domestic pigs bred with wild boar after the nuclear disaster offer lessons in wildlife genetics and invasive species management.

From jumping fences, destroying golf courses and digging up yards, wild pigs - also called wild boars or feral hogs - are one of the most destructive and invasive animals in the U.S. And while many ...

Then came European wild boar, a species imported gleefully throughout the 1980s to diversify Canada’s livestock sector. For meat, and for “shoot farms,” boars materialized in most Canadian provinces, ...

Radioactive pig-boar hybrids are thriving in Fukushima after nuclear disaster – now scientists know why - Domestic pig genes got diluted across generations but their rapid reproductive capacity persis ...

The wildlife you see on your next hiking trip? The rustle in your backyard at night? It might not be a raccoon or a deer. A steady increase in the population of wild pigs — a marauding, non-native ...

Feral pigs have spread across Australia. The latest numbers show that feral pig populations are present across 45% of the ...