After Wildfires in 2023, BC Interior Faces Feral Hogs in 2024

A pair of wild boars are seen in an image taken on a trail camera on Sept. 30, 2023. The Canadian Press/HO-Quebec Ministry of Environment, Fight against Climate Change, of Wildlife and Parks

B.C.’s extensive wildfires in 2023 may have led to hogs escaping into the wild and turning feral, says an organization that tracks invasive species.

“Domestic pigs can become feral,” said Robyn Hooper, executive director of the Columbia Shuswap Invasive Species Society. “They can do so just by escaping into the wild and they can start to change, but they can also mate with wild pigs,” she told The Epoch Times.