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Beware the boar: wild pigs patrol Israeli city under coronavirus closure
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A person walks at a street while wild boars roam in a residential area after the government ordered residents to stay home to fight the spread of coronavirus disease (Covid-19), in Haifa, northern Israel, April 16, 2020 Reuters pic |
HAIFA, Israel, April 17 — While coronavirus closures are coaxing wildlife into the abandoned streets of many a metropolis, in one Israeli city the four-legged interlopers are assertive and, well, quite boorish.
Wild boars, some as bulky as Rottweilers and travelling in family packs, have been trotting through Haifa in increasing numbers. Their once-nocturnal visitations now take place throughout the day, as they root through refuse, spook domestic pets and even block roads.
Wild boars, some as bulky as Rottweilers and travelling in family packs, have been trotting through Haifa in increasing numbers. Their once-nocturnal visitations now take place throughout the day, as they root through refuse, spook domestic pets and even block roads.
The visitation, since nationwide lockdowns came into effect this month, has revived debate among residents of the hilly port city as to policy regarding the pests.
“We are scared to go out, even to throw out the garbage. I don’t which way the boars will come,” Meirav Litani, a music instructor, said as a boar loomed in the distance.
“We are scared to go out, even to throw out the garbage. I don’t which way the boars will come,” Meirav Litani, a music instructor, said as a boar loomed in the distance.
“They come here and turn over our garbage dumpsters ... This is lack of protection. We actually feel defenceless.”
The municipality last year suspended culls of the boars, whose urban incursions, some experts say, are a response to human expansion into their natural habitat - the surrounding Carmel forest range, of biblical fame.
Less sympathetic city folk -— especially religious Jews or Muslims who consider pigs ritually unclean -— worry that the larger, tusked animals could turn violent.
For now, residents must turn to “pig patrols” made up of volunteer animal-rights activists who can be summoned at all hours to shoo the boars away.
“I’m scared that after the coronavirus passes, the boars will have gotten used to coming every day, every night, every hour,” said Yaron Hanan, 63, who runs a public campaign that has been calling for a municipal crackdown on the animals. — Reuters
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Even the Malaysian Chinese and Indian hunters would be happy to help out with the task...
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Kind policeman who saved pup from drain receives commendation letter from Tengku Permaisuri Selangor
17 Apr 2020
BY SYLVIA LOOI
PETALING JAYA, Apr 17 — The policeman, who saved a puppy from a monsoon drain last week, received a letter of commendation from Tengku Permaisuri Selangor Tengku Permaisuri Norashikin.
The letter was handed over recently to Corporal Mohd Azad Azady Mohd Tarmizee by Muhammad Syahir Hasan, who is Sultan Selangor Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah’s assistant private secretary.
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This MCO show up some very decent mata-mata : that nice polis pakcik who bought the whole stock of the kentang goreng of the Asli children who were caught out breaking the MCO selling their moms' kuih. Although the whole lot of the goreng kentang is only RM 5.50, the nice polis just want the children be off the street and go back home.
DeleteAnd of course the puppy rescuer truly deserves all the praise, more so being a Muslim who generally find dogs 'haram', according to the religion as practiced here lah.