It’s a similar concept with coyotes. If you leave them alone the population stabilizes, if you hunt them they spread out and reproduce like mad and you end up with more coyotes. Unless you methodically take out every coyote in an area it’s better to leave them alone then to hunt them if you want to keep the population down.
Boars are a different problem though, since they are so destructive. Definitely need a solution to clearing the area of wild ones.
I live in an area with a few packs of coyotes (in Ontario, Canada), and I learned from a ministry woman that they lack the resources to eradicate them, so they recommend “hounding” them…but only with the goal of eliminating entire packs.
If a local gets really stubborn about killing them, what happens is they typically kill them only on their own property…which doesn’t kill a pack…but rather splits it up and forces the survivors to create new packs and the overall populating can grow. So what she recommended was that the locals hire an expert with hounds and get the permission/cooperation from as many surrounding landowners as possible…so everybody can come up with a plan to control the population in a meaningful way. The major obstacle being that there are more cottages in my area than properties with livestock, so it’s difficult to get the permission of people who are around infrequently and/or don’t understand the issue.
It’s a similar concept with coyotes. If you leave them alone the population stabilizes, if you hunt them they spread out and reproduce like mad and you end up with more coyotes. Unless you methodically take out every coyote in an area it’s better to leave them alone then to hunt them if you want to keep the population down.
Boars are a different problem though, since they are so destructive. Definitely need a solution to clearing the area of wild ones.
It’s kinda fascinating.
I live in an area with a few packs of coyotes (in Ontario, Canada), and I learned from a ministry woman that they lack the resources to eradicate them, so they recommend “hounding” them…but only with the goal of eliminating entire packs.
If a local gets really stubborn about killing them, what happens is they typically kill them only on their own property…which doesn’t kill a pack…but rather splits it up and forces the survivors to create new packs and the overall populating can grow. So what she recommended was that the locals hire an expert with hounds and get the permission/cooperation from as many surrounding landowners as possible…so everybody can come up with a plan to control the population in a meaningful way. The major obstacle being that there are more cottages in my area than properties with livestock, so it’s difficult to get the permission of people who are around infrequently and/or don’t understand the issue.