Interesting info Cillian. I keep Kunekune pigs in my 6 year old oak wood (45 acres). They also help tree seeds to germinate by their rooting around. Hope to add galloway cows to the forest as the trees get stronger. The pigs have a great life in the woods, i made a hut for them to sleep in with a grass sod roof to blend in with their surroundings. The Winters pose no problem to them at all. Good luck with any future projects, hope to visit Burnfoot soon.
We need to get these beauiful animals back into our countryside. Imagine if the ones in Kerry were released into a national park instead, and their numbers could be managed then like we're happy to do with deer.
Seen and videod one of these feral pigs or wild boar in a woodland on Belfast hills. Powerfull creature and charged at me when i got to close. Have video if interested.
yes would really be amazing but, Ireland is mainly farmland which is a big problem because the wolves,bears and lynx would slaughter the cows and sheep then angry farmers would shoot them. there also isn't enough wild true Irish forests to give them a big enough home. a lot needs to be done before this ever happens unfortunately. Ireland was once covered in native rainforest which these animals would thrive in. in Ireland today there is very little wild forests left which would be a huge problem bringing these animals back. It was said that a squirrel could travel from one end of Ireland to the other without ever touching the ground as more than 80% of the land was covered by forests. so that puts into more perspective. For more perspective if you look at Canada they have a place called Bear island which is a completely natural area for bears,moose,beaver,wolves etc. to thrive the island is self sufficient without needing human interaction but it is is roughly the same size of the WHOLE island of Ireland!! So getting a more wilder Ireland would take a lot of commitment,people,time and money. Kilian has taken the first step bringing this back now we need to support as much as we can!!
@@hdjfjchcnsjdkfwjdjbkcndjd4460Here in Newfoundland,a colony of Ireland!!,we have much forested areas that accommodate moose,caribou,coyotes,smaller animals and the occasional polar bear.😂
If you do some basic research, you will find that, unchecked, wild boars will mix with feral pig populations and given time they can breed large populations which are devastating to farmers, land management areas, wildlife, and domestic farm-raised pig populations. Currently, the USA, Mainland Europe, and the Near East are dealing with - until recently - unchecked populations which are becoming an expensive agricultural nuisance. If there were alpha predators available in Ireland to deal with them - that'd be useful, but Ireland's wildlife/ecosystem has been severely hampered by the human populations, and conversion of rural lands to urban areas.
I legally imported wild boar from Sweden. So no they were not illegally imported and were in fact not hybrids coming from a park. These animals should be reintroduced as we in Ireland have the least biodiversity in Europe and their danger to pig breeders is over stated and if anything the domestic pigs being in enclosed conditions are a danger to wild boar not the other way around. This is also the case with deer and badger who get blamed for every disease that spreads in cattle sheds. It is disgraceful that we cannot make room for these intelligent and important animals and given our poor performance on climate and pollution one would expect that at a minimum we should be growing a native forest being the least forested country in Europe and given that so called poorer countries can do this in former communist blocks, our government is shameful. I note that you spread the department of agriculture propaganda. Given that that in the past the department of agriculture released hybrid deer ruining the Wicklow population of red deer forever, grows sitka spruce and imported the spruce aphid as a result, imported ash die back disease, formerly released myxomatosis in the rabbit population, and some bright spark has now brought in rabbit hemorrhaging disease ( which is killing hares) I'd be very careful about using the government and dept of agriculture line. Wild boar are not an invasive species, however cattle and sheep are and the destruction of Killarney national park by sheep should tell you that. Not only should wild boar be released, lynx, roe deer and brown bear should also be a feature in the Irish countryside. England is more populace but has far more biodiversity and is looking at lynx being released. Holland and France now have wolves and Lynx and again more dense populations.
What would you suggest as a reintroduction plan for Brown Bears? Where would you release them? Where would they live? What would they eat and would there be enough to sustain them if their population grew? Would they be a danger to people? I'm 100% for reintroducing species to Ireland but its a very different landscape to what it was when they last roamed here.
@@chrisdee5032 yet they can live in more populated countries. However, there would need to be a huge amount of work before they could be introduced as apex predators, like lynx which are being reintroduced in the UK Germany and elsewhere and wolves, making a comeback in Holland France and Italy, those countries have habitat that was not destroyed by successive governments. We have no habitat in Ireland and as such our governments policies on biodiversity is a joke. The release of wild boar and other animals invariably fails, because they starve. Only ruminants can survive because our only crop is grass. We have grass deserts intermittently interrupted by Sitka spruce with nothing able to survive the acidity under them. So yes reintroduce bears but there is a hierarchy that needs to be right first, and given that we have the worst habitat in Europe bar none we have some way to go. First habitat, then deer boar and beaver and birds, then we can start on predators, up to Lynx, after that Wolves and bear. A lost farm animal is no excuse for undoing the destruction that has happened under British occupation and subsequent Irish governments that new nothing but supplying British Beef.
Ireland will never reintroduce big predators because the Irish government doesn't give a shit about nature, for one we don't have any forests, we have monoculture pines that are cut every 30 years for profit, and second the farmers get to say what animals are allowed back as they would kill wolves and lynx anyway. Our country is a disgrace when it comes to nature, but we somehow have this green image, but believe me it's far from green. Its sad that Ireland will never have it's great oak forests back along with the boar, lynx and wolf, instead we will have hectares of Sitka spruce and fields upon fields that nothing else can grow but grass itself
Interesting info Cillian. I keep Kunekune pigs in my 6 year old oak wood (45 acres). They also help tree seeds to germinate by their rooting around. Hope to add galloway cows to the forest as the trees get stronger. The pigs have a great life in the woods, i made a hut for them to sleep in with a grass sod roof to blend in with their surroundings. The Winters pose no problem to them at all. Good luck with any future projects, hope to visit Burnfoot soon.
Where did that Irish boy learn to say "y'all"? I'm Southerner and i love that!!
We need to get these beauiful animals back into our countryside. Imagine if the ones in Kerry were released into a national park instead, and their numbers could be managed then like we're happy to do with deer.
Why were the wild boar shot dead in Kerry?
they weren’t meant to be their
Because the Irish government are cunts
Seen and videod one of these feral pigs or wild boar in a woodland on Belfast hills. Powerfull creature and charged at me when i got to close. Have video if interested.
mate i actually want to see that
Beautiful video 👍
I feed a few boar in Tuscany. ❤️🐗
We need Irelands Wolf Land back ASAP!!!!
There was a big brown hairy pig up by us in Fermanagh we all thought it was a pig but it might have been a boar hard to know
Too much farmland and not enough room for them. They'd overpopulate and tear shit up so bad its so muddy out there
Please release some into the wild as well as lynx, beaver, moose and wolves, we need more nature in Ireland...and forests...too much barren landscape
yes would really be amazing but, Ireland is mainly farmland which is a big problem because the wolves,bears and lynx would slaughter the cows and sheep then angry farmers would shoot them. there also isn't enough wild true Irish forests to give them a big enough home. a lot needs to be done before this ever happens unfortunately.
Ireland was once covered in native rainforest which these animals would thrive in. in Ireland today there is very little wild forests left which would be a huge problem bringing these animals back. It was said that a squirrel could travel from one end of Ireland to the other without ever touching the ground as more than 80% of the land was covered by forests. so that puts into more perspective.
For more perspective if you look at Canada they have a place called Bear island which is a completely natural area for bears,moose,beaver,wolves etc. to thrive the island is self sufficient without needing human interaction but it is is roughly the same size of the WHOLE island of Ireland!!
So getting a more wilder Ireland would take a lot of commitment,people,time and money. Kilian has taken the first step bringing this back now we need to support as much as we can!!
@@hdjfjchcnsjdkfwjdjbkcndjd4460Here in Newfoundland,a colony of Ireland!!,we have much forested areas that accommodate moose,caribou,coyotes,smaller animals and the occasional polar bear.😂
Baloney Ireland no boer ..,, cone to Hungary : thousands if them
Why were they murdered? Awful start to the vid, jez.
If you do some basic research, you will find that, unchecked, wild boars will mix with feral pig populations and given time they can breed large populations which are devastating to farmers, land management areas, wildlife, and domestic farm-raised pig populations. Currently, the USA, Mainland Europe, and the Near East are dealing with - until recently - unchecked populations which are becoming an expensive agricultural nuisance. If there were alpha predators available in Ireland to deal with them - that'd be useful, but Ireland's wildlife/ecosystem has been severely hampered by the human populations, and conversion of rural lands to urban areas.
I legally imported wild boar from Sweden. So no they were not illegally imported and were in fact not hybrids coming from a park. These animals should be reintroduced as we in Ireland have the least biodiversity in Europe and their danger to pig breeders is over stated and if anything the domestic pigs being in enclosed conditions are a danger to wild boar not the other way around. This is also the case with deer and badger who get blamed for every disease that spreads in cattle sheds. It is disgraceful that we cannot make room for these intelligent and important animals and given our poor performance on climate and pollution one would expect that at a minimum we should be growing a native forest being the least forested country in Europe and given that so called poorer countries can do this in former communist blocks, our government is shameful. I note that you spread the department of agriculture propaganda. Given that that in the past the department of agriculture released hybrid deer ruining the Wicklow population of red deer forever, grows sitka spruce and imported the spruce aphid as a result, imported ash die back disease, formerly released myxomatosis in the rabbit population, and some bright spark has now brought in rabbit hemorrhaging disease ( which is killing hares) I'd be very careful about using the government and dept of agriculture line. Wild boar are not an invasive species, however cattle and sheep are and the destruction of Killarney national park by sheep should tell you that. Not only should wild boar be released, lynx, roe deer and brown bear should also be a feature in the Irish countryside. England is more populace but has far more biodiversity and is looking at lynx being released. Holland and France now have wolves and Lynx and again more dense populations.
What would you suggest as a reintroduction plan for Brown Bears? Where would you release them? Where would they live? What would they eat and would there be enough to sustain them if their population grew? Would they be a danger to people?
I'm 100% for reintroducing species to Ireland but its a very different landscape to what it was when they last roamed here.
@@chrisdee5032 yet they can live in more populated countries. However, there would need to be a huge amount of work before they could be introduced as apex predators, like lynx which are being reintroduced in the UK Germany and elsewhere and wolves, making a comeback in Holland France and Italy, those countries have habitat that was not destroyed by successive governments. We have no habitat in Ireland and as such our governments policies on biodiversity is a joke. The release of wild boar and other animals invariably fails, because they starve. Only ruminants can survive because our only crop is grass. We have grass deserts intermittently interrupted by Sitka spruce with nothing able to survive the acidity under them. So yes reintroduce bears but there is a hierarchy that needs to be right first, and given that we have the worst habitat in Europe bar none we have some way to go. First habitat, then deer boar and beaver and birds, then we can start on predators, up to Lynx, after that Wolves and bear. A lost farm animal is no excuse for undoing the destruction that has happened under British occupation and subsequent Irish governments that new nothing but supplying British Beef.
Ireland will never reintroduce big predators because the Irish government doesn't give a shit about nature, for one we don't have any forests, we have monoculture pines that are cut every 30 years for profit, and second the farmers get to say what animals are allowed back as they would kill wolves and lynx anyway. Our country is a disgrace when it comes to nature, but we somehow have this green image, but believe me it's far from green. Its sad that Ireland will never have it's great oak forests back along with the boar, lynx and wolf, instead we will have hectares of Sitka spruce and fields upon fields that nothing else can grow but grass itself
@@zenith7024 preaching to the choir mate. 👍