the libido of boars and the impact this has on sow fertility. Tshepo Teele of the Center of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences at the University of South Africa, has looked at indigenous pig ...

Experts attribute the growing urban boar sightings to an increase in their population. Choi In-bong, head of a rapid response wildlife capture team, said, "Last year’s outbreak of African swine ...

One more case of African swine fever (ASF) has been confirmed in a wild boar in the eastern German state of Brandenburg over the weekend, Germany’s agriculture ministry said. The new discovery ...

Wild boars are native to Eurasia and North Africa, with the Central European Boar subspecies dominant in Europe. European authorities in several countries have struggled to manage their native ...

Quarantine authorities are increasingly on alert for African swine fever (ASF), a pig disease with a nearly 100 percent fatality rate that has spread to almost all areas surrounding Japan.

African swine fever does not infect humans, but its fatality rate is close to total for pigs and wild boars. No effective vaccine exists. Farm ministry officials said the disease was found in ...

Sri Lanka faces the risk of its entire wild boar population being wiped out because of African swine fever that has already killed around 100 of them as observed by the wildlife authorities ...