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Pig Hunting on Maui - it's what's for dinner - (not for the PETA crowd)

I got these pictures one day while up in Kula Maui - two trucks stopped at Morihara Store and I grabbed my camera and took a bunch of pictures.  It was a weekend - that's when a lot of the local pig hunters take their dogs out in the country to "bring home the bacon".  These dogs look tired - it's not easy to run down a large boar like this, and hold it until the boys come with their guns.  Check out the tusks!

 
Conservation efforts are underway to remove a large part of the pig population in Maui County.  Read what the Nature Conservancy has to say about this.
On Maui you can find wild and feral pigs in most of the countryside - and especially up in the forests.  They are BAD NEWS on the ecosystem, with their rooting and foraging which disturbs the ground and native plants.  Don't cry for this little piggie.  Locals are doing a good thing by reducing the pig population, and "living off the land".
The truly wild pigs are all black like this.  The males have the big tusks, which make nice trophies.  Feral pigs are those which have ... more

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