A new website has joined the fight against invasive wild pigs in Canada, aiming to offer tools, information and resources to educate the public and offer them a way to report wild pig sightings.
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Alberta marks 75 years of rat-free status
The province’s Rat Control Program has helped make it one of the few rat-free zones in the world
Alberta is one of the few places left in the world who can claim being rat free, saving farmers from the invasive pest through the Rat Control Program.
Moth provides pasture biocontrol for oxeye daisy
Agriculture Canada researchers learn that the Dichrorampha aeratana moth can help livestock and forage producers fight the weed
A European moth is being used in parts of Western Canada as a biological control agent against oxeye daisy, an invasive plant that threatens forage crops and pastures.
Wild boar called major disease risk in Alberta
The fight continues against the invasive spread of wild boar in Alberta and its inherent disease risk and damage to the agriculture sector.
Alta. irrigators continue efforts to keep out zebra mussels
The invasive species would cause significant damage to the province’s irrigation infrastructure if they were to gain a foothold
For irrigation farmers in Alberta, it is likely when and not if the spectre of zebra mussels arrive.
Man. wild pig control requires different strategy
Copying U.S. strategies has not worked in Canada because the northern pigs act differently than their southern cousins
HOLLAND, Man. — Manitoba’s rugged wild pigs ain’t like the pampered porkers down south. That means finding, trapping, controlling and monitoring them can’t be done in the same way that Texans do it. As millions of people have seen on YouTube, Texans and other southern plains humans have become adept at trapping large numbers of […] Read more
Stricter restrictions wanted for mussels
British Columbia’s Okanagan Basin Water Board has renewed calls for a ban on all out-of-province watercraft, following the discovery of invasive quagga mussels in neighbouring Idaho. James Littley, OBWB deputy administrator, said an inspection system is in place but if inspection stations are closed, “anybody can come in from anywhere and launch boats in the […] Read more
Invasive mussel alert in Idaho raises concern in Alberta
Idaho state officials have activated a rapid response plan after invasive quagga mussels were found on the Snake River near Twin Falls. State officials warn the invasive mussels threaten the Columbia River basin, which runs across the Pacific Northwest including British Columbia. Related stories on this issue: Mussels close in on Alberta irrigation district Pink […] Read more
Eradicate wild pigs to avoid disease risk: pork council
Rene Roy, chair of the Canadian Pork Council, said industry wants to see a cross-government initiative to eradicate wild pigs.
He said the wild pig population would become a pool of disease if something like African swine fever entered it.
Computers know their invasive mussels
Artificial intelligence, like that used in autonomous farm equipment, could be taught to recognize and report quagga and zebra mussels
New research on detection of quagga and zebra mussels is testing artificial intelligence capabilities to detect the invasive species before they become endemic. Graham Taylor, interim research director at Vector Institute, said the technology has been tested on Ontario lakes and has proven to be as accurate as human expert estimates of mussel populations in […] Read more
