Wild boars have been observed in wooded areas and in adjacent farm fields in the United Counties of Prescott and Russell beginning in late summer of 2013. Wild boars (feral swine) are not native to North America, but are sometimes farm-raised for their meat or other commercial purposes. The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act (FWCA) requires that any escape of wildlife that has been transported into Ontario, or has been propagated by stock that was transported into Ontario, must be reported to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) and that the owner of such wildlife must recapture or kill it as soon as possible. To date, there has been no report of escaped wild boars and MNRF staff persons have been unable to determine the owner of these animals. As a result, the MNRF is authorizing landowners and hunters to kill any wild boars sighted as per Section 54 (5) of the FWCA.
Download the memorandum to residents of the United Counties of Prescott and Russell.
If you have seen or shot a wild boar, have information on a wild boar sighting, shooting or vehicle collision, or would like more information, please contact Mary Dillon, Management Biologist at MNRF’s Kemptville District Office at: (613) 258-8267 or mary.dillon@ontario.ca. Alternatively, you can call the ministry’s Natural Resource Information Centre (NRIC) toll-free at 1 (800) 667-1940 and ask to be re-directed to the Kemptville District Office.