Published: 23 March 2021
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Seeing a lone boar strutting along the streets of the northern city of Haifa used to be a rare sight, but today these roaming rogues have become a common and growing problem.
According to Haifa’s residents, herds of wild boar can often be seen roaming the city’s streets, wreaking havoc and destroying property, and in some rare cases attacking people.
Unlike her predecessors, who chose to cull the boar population through hunting, Haifa’s mayor, Einat Kalisch-Rotem, decided to solve the problem using non-lethal means. She has opted to deny the pigs any sources of food and water in the city. These measures, which include reinforcing rubbish bins to prevent the animals from reaching the discarded food inside, have not found favour with some local officials, who claim they are useless.
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Haifa Bay of Pigs (Ynetnews)
While the northern capital's municipality argues with the Nature and Parks Authority over its responsibility for dealing with the local hog problem, experts say the number of boars in the city will double within a year if they are not removed
Sleepy Haifa boar becomes internet star (Times Of Israel)
Wild beasts have increasingly taken up residence in the northern coastal city
Photo: AFP
