Boar hunting restrictions lifted
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Changes are coming to the regulations and rules for hunting feral or free-ranging wild boar in Saskatchewan.
Amendments to The Wildlife Regulations now allow Saskatchewan hunters to hunt wild boar without municipality permission. Hunters are still required to ask permission to hunt on private property and are not allowed to hunt along roads or road allowances. Previous to the changes, the Ministry of Environment considered wild boars to be escaped animals and required anyone hunting them to ask their Rural Municipality for permission before doing so. The change means hunters now only have to ask permission of land owners when going on private land.
The removal of a stray animal designation that currently applies to wild boar means that local rural municipalities that administer The Stray Animals Act and its regulations are no longer responsible for wild boar capture and containment.
Wild boar are a species from Asia and Europe, and were imported to Saskatchewan in the late 1970s as domestic livestock. They escaped from farms and created reproducing populations in wild areas throughout the province.
