TODAY: Culling of Lower Peirce wild pigs ‘necessary in the short
term’ TODAY reported that the Nature Society (Singapore) has
come up with long-term measures to reduce culling of wild pigs
in the future, even though for the shorter term it recommends
culling of significant numbers. The society rejected
sterilisation, translocation and erection of barriers are
inadequate measures to curb the wild pig population, while
starting a survey to see if there is correlation between pig
densities and abundance of oil palm in the area. Culling of
Lower Peirce wild pigs ‘necessary in the short term’ SINGAPORE –
Even as it recommended that the wild pig population at Lower
Peirce needed to be “substantially reduced immediately”, the
Nature Society has suggested longer-term measures to minimise
future culling. These include fencing off the oil palm forest at
the south-east section of the Lower Peirce forest to deny the
pigs access to this food source, the removal of oil palm and a
study to determine optimum wild pig populat