Wild boars spotted in Sipoo near Helsinki

Wild boars spotted in Sipoo near Helsinki from Finland

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  1. Ruokavirasto (Finnish Food Authority) literally gives you money if you kill those bastards and send a sample. The boars are spreading [African swine fever virus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_swine_fever_virus), which is considered a very bad thing indeed.

    40€ to a hunter who sends a sample from a boar.
    60€ for a female pig sample with an intact uterus.
    100€ if you find one dead from a car crash or similar.
    [Here’s the link](https://www.ruokavirasto.fi/laboratoriopalvelut/elaintautitutkimukset/naytteenotto-ohjeet/villisika/) for the bounties, but it’s in Finnish, couldn’t find an English one.

  2. I’m just a dumb American and know very little of Finland short of what my Finnish grandmother told me so please forgive my ignorance for my questions.

    Is hunting not common in Finland? I ask because here in northern Michigan hunting season is practically a holiday and I’d love to get my hands on one of those!

    Do you have to pay to hunt boar there or is it such a menace it’s open season?

  3. Never seen them. Are those dangerous, i mean are they generally scared of people or may charge?

  4. Just to put it into perspective, a female can have 3 litters of piglets a year. A healthy sow will have at least 10 (i counted 12 here) and they reach sexual maturity at 6 months old.

    Let’s say half of these are females, 6 new females producing 10 piglets, 3 times a year = 180 new pigs a year and so on and so on

    I mean fuck, they hunt these with helicopters and machine guns in Texas and they are still not close to culling them

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