To be fair, we are behind the whole invasive species thing

Yeah, way into the planetary infestation phase too, and already triggered the 6th mass extinction event.

Unfortunately they'll still see population growth....

That means 65% or more of a wild pig population could be killed every year and it will still increase, Brook said. Hunting just makes the problem worse, he said. The success rate for hunters is only about 2% to 3% and several states have banned hunting because it makes the pigs more wary and nocturnal — tougher to track down and eradicate.

They're not able to keep up with the breeding in Texas, and there's even helicopter tours where you can try and wipe out whole herds at a time.

This is already the case in Saskatchewan and it hasn't managed to curb the population.

In many states it is, not just northern. Iirc Texas will pay you to take an AR into a field and take out as many as you can. People even organize hunts from helicopters hunting herds like they should have Fortunate Son playing (no full auto though just ARs and typically BYOAR and ammo iirc.)

Feral hogs have been a problem for a while. They do tons of damage to southern agriculture each year. USDA estimates 1.5 billion dollars worth annually. https://www.nifa.usda.gov/about-nifa/impacts/southern-region-land-grant-researchers-finding-feral-hog-solutions

No, Thėy təste aɓSlutelƴ awefull!

-Sined, Not Ae Pig

Buffalo weren't eaten to almost extinction. And they don't give birth to 10 calves at a time.

The bacon tax.

The pigs are mainly around agricultural areas. We're on the bare edge of the Canadian prairie (10km from the edge of forest that extends 2500km to the west and however far to the tundra) and we rarely see wolves even here. They aren't really a predator for the Russian boar that are now endemic in our area.

Between the 3 of us here on the farm, we've probably shot (and eaten because they're delicious) about 200 of them over the last 5 or 6 years. And we've knocked them back a bit on our own land, but they just breed over on other people's farms and give ours a wide berth now.

Biggest one we shot was over 500lbs

Imagine thinking about a working natural ecosystem (co)existing in the same era as humans, preposterous.

:'(

The risk is that if these pigs cross with a hypothetical manbear then we would have an unstoppable being that's half man, half bear, half pig.

Spider pig

Spider pig

Does whatever a spider pig does

In Texas we can shoot 'em from helicopters with fully automatic weapons. (Seriously) 🤠