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> Neil Gaiman's System Shock Ehm... which book? Are you thinking of Neil Stephenson's "Termination Shock"? That one involves feral pigs, and I'm not seeing "System Shock" as a book by Gaiman.
I'm pretty sure this is what OP meant; but, now, I am saddened we haven't seen the Neil's collaborate on a sci-fi graphic novel. Obviously, it'd be 12000 pages long.
The nature needs predators. Maybe stop killing wolves like madmen.
In Texas we trap them, blow them up, shoot them from helicopters, and shoot them from quads while chasing them at 50mph. They're too smart to shoot them from a standing position. I've seen packs of 15-20 running along together while riding my motorcycle along county roads in the middle of nowhere, San Saba County. But they normally stay out of sight; they're super smart. Good luck.
This is exactly what we in Europe imagine Texas to be like. I'm not disappointed.
> [The] reality is still that outside of the Prairie Provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, there are no meaningful opportunities to hunt wild pigs, which is not allowed in Ontario and Quebec In the southern United States it’s open season on wild pigs to keep the population under control. In at least Texas, you can take a machine gun mounted to a helicopter to go hog hunting: https://www.helibacon.com/texa…
Sport hunting doesn't help keep the population down though: https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/texas-has-a-feral-hog-...
> [The] reality is still that outside of the Prairie Provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, there are no meaningful opportunities to hunt wild pigs, which is not allowed in Ontario and Quebec In the southern United States it’s open season on wild pigs to keep the population under control. In at least Texas, you can take a machine gun mounted to a helicopter to go hog hunting: https://www.helibacon.com/texa…
Sounds a lot like humans.
I'm not exactly in tune with the discussion on invasive species, but in this case it seems to be too late. Should we intervene in established ecosystems? These are natural systems and why not have a live and let live attitude to animals.
When hornets make a nest outside your garage, do you intervene or do you live and let live?
I don't think we should be gardeners of the whole biosphere.
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Sport hunting doesn't help keep the population down though: https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/texas-has-a-feral-hog-...
It's nothing that increased farming won't solve. Farmers will efficiently eradicate any pest in their designated areas.
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Sport hunting doesn't help keep the population down though: https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/texas-has-a-feral-hog-...
When I was younger my friends and I used to trap and kill dozens of them at a time. The sheer number of hogs and the rate at which they breed down in the river bottoms is insane. Not sure how you'd ever get rid of them, they are pretty clever and once you use a trick unsuccessfully on them they tend to avoid it.
Same how Australia fought the Emus in The Great Emu war