Are pigs a protected and rare wild animal in our country? Its habits are:

2022Wild boars are no longer protected animals. Because on December 10, the National Forestry and Grassland Administration released the "List of Terrestrial Wild Animals with Important Ecological, Scientific and Social Value (Draft for Comments)", many small partners can find that the wild boars that were previously included in the list of protected animals have been deleted. However, the specific implementation time of this list still needs to wait for the official notice of the ruler, and before the implementation, the wild boar still belongs to the three wild protected animals.

Characteristics of wild boarsThe color of the wild boar's coat is relatively consistent, dark brown or brownish-black, which is a protective color and suitable for the wild. Wild piglets are pale yellowish brown with 6 pale yellow stripes on their backs. The wild boar hair is dense and hard, and the mane on the back is well developed, about 14 cm long, **thick.

The boar has a long head, a prominent protruding snout, and erect ears. Wild boars (especially male wild boars) have well-developed canine teeth and are about 7 cm long. The boar has a narrow and shallow body, well-developed forelimbs, a short back and waist, a constricted abdomen, and a high back and low dorsal line.

In our country, there is a local rampant animal, they are not invasive species, but still the national "three animals", protected animals, it is wild boar.

As a result, many people have a question: while everyone has a responsibility to protect wild animals, do wild boars still need to be protected because they threaten human safety and damage property? The answer is yes.

First of all, pigs are one of the animals we are most familiar with, as early as about 10,000 years ago, they were domesticated by early humans from wild boars, and at present, pork is our most demanded meat. Although wild boars have been domesticated for 10,000 years, the wild boars have never stopped fighting against people, because wild boars have a heterogeneous eating nature, and they often damage people's property (especially crops). As a result, the conflict between humans and pigs (wild boars) has never ceased to be a big drawback, and many people pursue so-called "wild meat", so wild boars are hunted in large numbers all over the world.

From the distribution point of view, wild boar in addition to South America, Antarctica, almost distributed in all parts of the world (North America, Australia and other places are brought by people), only the subspecies have 21 (including domestic pigs), in our country all the wild boar subspecies are collectively called Eurasian wild boar, their original distribution is in addition to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Gobi Desert area, distributed in various provinces, but with the continuous hunting and the destruction of the wild environment by people renting imitation lead, the wild boar is now mainly distributed in the three eastern provinces, Yunnan, Guizhou, Fujian, In Guangdong and other places, the habitat range has been greatly reduced. Therefore, the gradual reduction of the range of wild boars under human influence is one of the reasons for their protection.

Secondly, wild boars, although they are hateful, play an important role in nature. First of all, wild boars are the main prey of many large prey, such as tigers, leopards, wolves, and so on. At present, the leopard has become an endangered animal, the former South China tiger has become an extinct animal in the wild, and the wolves that were originally all over the country have also become national second-class protected animals.

Secondly, wild boars like to use their noses to arch the soil to find food, which can play a role in loosening the soil, and on the other hand, they can dig out some rodent food (such as mice).

Therefore, the wild boar has an important position in the ecology, and its own existence as a wild animal also enriches the diversity of species, and has scientific research value, therefore, on August 1, 2000, the State Forestry Administration issued the "List of Terrestrial Wild Animals with Beneficial or Important Economic and Scientific Research Value Protected by the State" (Sanyou Animals) in which wild boars are among them, in fact, this "list" aims to protect those terrestrial wild animals that are not on the list of key protected animals. Although the level of protection of the "three animals" is not as good as that of the "first and second grades" (the first and second level of national protected animals, it is a crime to hunt and kill one without permission), but the killing of more than 20 "three animals" also constitutes a crime.

It is a protected animal, but the wild boar is not a second-class protected animal, but a three-protected animal.

At present, wild boar is one of the three protected animals, and the "List of Terrestrial Wild Animals Protected by the State and Beneficial or with Important Economic and Scientific Research Value" is listed.

Eurasian wild boar originated in Europe and Asia, and was widely introduced to North America, covering the Eurasian continent, including East Asia, Southeast Asia, the Japanese archipelago, southern Siberia, Central Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, northern Africa and the Mediterranean coast, southern Scandinavia in Europe, etc.

History of Species. The history of Eurasian wild boars dates back 40 million years, and there are indications that domestic pigs may have come from Europe and Asia. Among the fossils that have been discovered, it is proven that animals like Eurasian wild boars roamed through forests and swamps.

Eurasian wild boar was once widespread in Eurasia and North Africa, as far west as Spain and Morocco, as far east as Japan, north as Nordic and Siberia, and as far south as Indonesia, India and Sudan. The habitat spans temperate and tropical, from semi-arid climates to tropical rainforests, temperate woodlands, grasslands, etc., and often breaks into agricultural land to forage, but it is not found in extremely arid, extremely high altitude, and extremely cold areas. In addition to the Tibetan Plateau and the Gobi Desert, they are widely distributed in China.

In 2022, wild boars are not protected animals! Kiss.

Wild boars are still three animals, but according to the National Forestry and Grassland Administration's "List of Terrestrial Wild Animals with Important Ecological, Scientific and Social Value (Draft for Comments)" released on December 12, the wild boar that was listed as a protected animal in 2000 has been deleted.

Although wild boar is not a protected animal, it is best not to eat it, because it still belongs to wild meat, according to the relevant laws and regulations issued by some places, it has been completely prohibited to eat wild animals, so those who eat wild boars will face administrative penalties. In addition, the new crown epidemic ** everyone also knows that most of it is related to contact with wild animals, and now is also a difficult time for epidemic prevention and control, and eating wild boars will definitely not be allowed.

Wild boars are protected animals. Once a wild boar is found to have been killed, it can be fined or sentenced.

Generally speaking, a large reason why a species becomes a protected animal is because they are not numerous, and in order to prevent their extinction due to human reasons, they will be protected. From the perspective of time, it was only in August 2000 that wild boars officially became "national three protected animals", because in the past, many people in rural areas went to hunt wild boars, which led to the number of wild boars in some places is decreasing.

fromFrom the perspective of scientific research valueAs the ancestor of domestic pigs, wild boars have high scientific research value; fromThe perspective of the ecological chainIn nature, the presence of wild boars is also important. Therefore, in order to prevent people from overhunting wild boars, resulting in the endangered situation of wild boars in our country.

At present, although wild boars have been removed from the list of "national three protected animals", wild boars still have an identity - wild animals, and since the beginning of last year, China has expressly banned and is not allowed to eat wild animals in any form.