Yes the article hits most of the marks - feral pigs are a nightmare for pristine areas and areas people would prefer not disturbed / uprooted resulting in a damaged landscape, water run off issues ... as well as outing the presence of people who don't make it easy for controlling the problem, motivated in protecting and aiding the spread of pigs, for their own reasons.
I've seen the same in my locale, though the removal of the bounty based on weight has certainly eased things considerably IMO. Yes we had idiots that had this brilliant idea of taking small often drought afflicted pigs to the coast to fatten up on farmer's crops for a few months so they were good money at the box a place that paid on weight as the carcass was on sold to turned into pet meat. I also see the people who don't like poisons as more often casually placed baits near other people end up making dogs sick / dead (the sodium nitrite in a pig carcass I would think is quite safe for dogs though.) More often the problem of feral pig removal may way, came down to the sport of hunting the pigs with their hunting dogs - and those involved tend to only get a smaller percentage of the local feral pig mob, since 100% reduction means they would have to find new hunting grounds every week or two if that was their weekend's hobby activity.
Yes the article hits most of the marks - feral pigs are a nightmare for pristine areas and areas people would prefer not disturbed / uprooted resulting in a damaged landscape, water run off issues ... as well as outing the presence of people who don't make it easy for controlling the problem, motivated in protecting and aiding the spread of pigs, for their own reasons.
I've seen the same in my locale, though the removal of the bounty based on weight has certainly eased things considerably IMO. Yes we had idiots that had this brilliant idea of taking small often drought afflicted pigs to the coast to fatten up on farmer's crops for a few months so they were good money at the box a place that paid on weight as the carcass was on sold to turned into pet meat. I also see the people who don't like poisons as more often casually placed baits near other people end up making dogs sick / dead (the sodium nitrite in a pig carcass I would think is quite safe for dogs though.) More often the problem of feral pig removal may way, came down to the sport of hunting the pigs with their hunting dogs - and those involved tend to only get a smaller percentage of the local feral pig mob, since 100% reduction means they would have to find new hunting grounds every week or two if that was their weekend's hobby activity.