Wild boars have taken over Japanese towns after the Fukushima nuclear disaster Wild boars have taken over Japanese towns after the Fukushima nuclear disaster Japanese towns deserted after the Fukushima nuclear crisis have unexpected tenants: wild boars.
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"You're alone with wild boars up there," Mr. Arbesser said.
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Wild boars strolled the streets of a busy neighborhood recently.
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"It's like our town has fallen under wild boars' control."
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All the 13 Wild Boars are now out of the cave.
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The artist does not portray all law enforcement as wild boars.
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Spread partly by wild boars, ASF is harmless to human beings.
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Related: Wild Boars Are Getting Kicked Out of Deserted Japanese Towns
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In Pakistan, wild boars descend on Islamabad, the capital, every winter.
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In 2017, Louisiana's 700,000 wild boars cost the state $76 million.
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Wild boars have been spotted in both Asian and European cities.
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He talked about the saguaro cactus and rattlesnakes and wild boars.
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The Wild Boars play in the northern town of Mae Sai.
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More frighteningly, radioactive wild boars marauded Japanese towns and attacked people.
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The Wild Boars is the name of the boys' soccer team.
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The parents of the Wild Boars have written letters supporting Mr. Ekkapol.
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Others killed aggressive wild boars and checked their intestines for human remains.
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Central and Eastern Europe are teeming with radioactive—yes radioactive—wild boars.
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The Wild Boars were celebrities and have toured the world since then.
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Wild boars were brought to Texas and released for hunting in the 1930s.
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In the forests around Fukushima, the population of radioactive wild boars is exploding.
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Residents have reported seeing wild boars, monkeys and snakes in unusual urban areas.
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Wild boars, or the Eurasian wild pig, are on every continent except Antarctica.
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ASF occurs among pigs and wild boars, and its effects are often deadly.
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But the Wild Boars provided a haven for stateless and Thai children alike.
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One Flemish farmers' group, ABS, called for the cull of wild boars to protect farm pigs, while Wallonia's agriculture ministry said it has banned hunting in a 63,000 hectare-wide (155,676 acre) area to prevent wild boars from spreading out.
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But the "Wild Boars" will get their chance to go on tour once fit.
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Because neighborhoods have stood empty for so long, wild boars sometimes roam the streets.
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Mark Zuckerberg has an unconventional hobby: hunting wild boars with a bow and arrow.
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Farmland, transformed into grassland, has become a perfect habitat for wild boars and foxes.
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They called the boys "wild boars," a reference to the name of their soccer team.
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On occasion, she slept in the abandoned dens of wild boars that roam the forest.
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In Poland, the number of wild boars are thought to be between 200,000 and 500,000.
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Of them 146,269 are - like three of the "Wild Boars" soccer team - younger than 18.
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The discovery of the "Wild Boars" soccer team sparked scenes of wild jubilation across Thailand.
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Vermin slink through the hip-high weeds in the land where wild boars now roam.
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A few weeks ago, the family encountered some unusual neighbors: a trio of wild boars.
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Wild boars in Hong Kong are leaving decimated forests and coming into town for snacks.
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Wild boars forage for acorns on the land, which runs down to a sandy cove.
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King Maha Vajiralongkorn thanked those involved in finding the soccer team nicknamed the Wild Boars.
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" Another features the team riding on a large wild boar and says: "Wild Boars keep fighting.
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For the foreseeable future, Fukushima's wild boars will have to stay off the dinner table.[Reuters]
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The food provided is so poor that much of it gets thrown away, attracting wild boars.
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CIKAWAO, Indonesia (Reuters) - A gory fight to the death between snarling dogs and captured wild boars.
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Why is it so important for some people to focus only on the two wild boars?
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Swine fever is often deadly for pigs and wild boars, but is not infectious for humans.
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In parts of Germany and in Japan, wild boars running around are contaminated with nuclear radiation.
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He added that wild boars do not typically attack humans unless they are provoked or frightened.
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Steve Corry, 44, says he regularly sees wild boars while running on Hong Kong's hiking trails.
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The 12 members of the Wild Boars soccer team were released from the hospital on Wednesday.
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But in domestic pigs and wild boars, it causes a hemorrhagic fever that is often lethal.
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He then was hired to be the assistant coach of the team, known as the Wild Boars.
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"We have wild boars crossing the border and they could bring in PRRS to Brazil," Ribas said.
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The "Wild Boars" team entered the cave when it was dry, but flood waters trapped them inside.
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The Wild Boars were missing for nine days before being discovered by expert divers on July 2.
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It's been more than two weeks since the members of the Wild Boars soccer team were stranded.
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British divers found the Wild Boars soccer team more than a week after they were reported missing.
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Poland's veterinary officials approved a plan to kill 185,000 wild boars in the 2018/2019 hunting season.
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Wild boars run up to 30 miles per hour and can leap over three-feet-high fences.
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Dr. Thongchai said the Wild Boars would not be attending because they would still be under quarantine.
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The three young Wild Boars were Mongkol Boonpiam, 13, Adul Sam-on, 3.53, and Pornchai Khamluang, 16.
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Last week, Manchester United invited the "Wild Boars" to watch a match at their Old Trafford ground.
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In 2018, Denmark constructed a wall along its border with Germany specifically to keep out wild boars.
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"Wild boars in this town are not scared of people these days," said hunter Shoichiro Sakamoto to Reuters.
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In South Korea, wild boars have flourished due to the loss of predators like tigers, leopards, and wolves.
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By the time British divers found them on July 2, the Wild Boars and their coach looked skeletal.
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Mae Sai, where the Wild Boars play soccer, seems an unlikely place for a resurgence in Thai pride.
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The Wild Boars arrived in white robes, which they gave up for the saffron robes of Buddhist monks.
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The Wild Boars' 25-year-old coach, Ekkapol Chantawong, described his shock at hearing of Mr. Saman's death.
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In the news conference, the Wild Boars explained more about their ill-fated expedition to Tham Luang Cave.
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Black Iberian pigs descend from wild boars and have been considered a delicacy since long before our times.
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"We would love to welcome the team from Wild Boars Football Club and their rescuers," the club Tweeted.
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Follow live updates Wild Boars teammates resume training as hope grows The 12 boys, aged between 11 and 16 and all members of the youth soccer team known as the Wild Boars, entered the caves with their coach on June 23 and became trapped inside after heavy rains flooded the entrance.
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South Korean pork producers worry that wild boars near the border could carry in the virus, hitting pig farms.
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The Wild Boars members are said to be physically and emotionally healthy, and "in high spirits," according to CNN.
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The Wild Boars team became trapped 4km into the complex after heavy rains flooded it while they explored together.
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The Wild Boars were eventually rescued after a grueling effort that claimed the life of one Thai Navy SEAL.
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Booming populations of wild boars, some of which are radioactive, are menacing major cities like Hong Kong and Barcelona
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And in Japan's Fukushima prefecture, where no one has lived since 2011's nuclear meltdown, wild boars have flourished.
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The meadows were speckled with mounds of mud, signs of wild boars that had been rooting around for food.
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Ways to keep wild boars from spreading the virus must include an understanding of the animal's movement, Stone said.
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His process involves snaring wild boars in the mountains of southern Taiwan and bringing them into the city for preparation.
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The Wild Boars players are recovering in isolation at the Chiang Rai Prachanukroh hospital after more than two weeks underground.
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Trouble is, the place has been overrun by hundreds of belligerent and potentially radioactive wild boars, prompting public safety concerns.
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PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech Republic has detected African swine fever (ASF) in two wild boars, Agriculture Ministry said on Tuesday.
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At the same time, wild boars contaminated by radioactive material continued to reproduce and eat crops in the Fukushima area.
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Wild boars have been found infected in the Czech Republic and Poland, and the disease can easily spread to pigs.
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The disease is harmless to people but potentially devastating in domestic pigs and the wild boars that might spread it.
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As soon as their brief monkhood ends, the Wild Boars will begin new lives, most likely in the public eye.
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Public buses have caught fire, and some neighborhoods have even seen wild boars picking through the trash and sidestepping potholes.
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Navy SEAL members formed relay teams to lift the Wild Boars down steep slopes on which every step was slippery.
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Wild boars are abundant across the East Coast and parts of California, according to the National Wild Pig Task Force.
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They are expected to join the Wild Boars and Mr. Ekkapol in quarantine, however, because of the fear of infection.
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It occurs among pigs and wild boars, transmitted by ticks and direct contact between animals, and its effects are often deadly.
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He actually portrays 44 different species of animals — from a bat to an insect to wild boars — coming in and grieving.
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It has also already spread across parts of central and eastern Europe and even been found in wild boars in Belgium.
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Players from France and England welcomed news of the rescue and sent their best wishes to the "Wild Boars" on Twitter.
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For 10 days, the Wild Boars had sheltered in a cramped cave chamber, licking condensation off the limestone walls to survive.
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The Wild Boars had run out of food and light but had survived by sipping the condensation from the cave walls.
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Twelve players of the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach were trapped in the flooded cave complex on June 23.
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"Found the 13 'Wild Boars', safe and preparing to come out," was the headline in the country's biggest daily, Thai Rath.
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The fifth Wild Boars player rescued from the Tham Luang Nang Non cave was seen on a stretcher around 4:30 p.m.
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After the Fukushima disaster, wild boars came down from the mountains and roamed the evacuation zone, tearing up gardens and ransacking houses.
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Earlier today, China also banned the import of pigs, wild boars and related products from Myanmar over concerns about African swine fever.
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The rescue of the 12 members of the "Wild Boars" team and their coach drew divers and volunteers from around the world.
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The 12 boys, members of the Wild Boars soccer team, and their 25-year-old coach, had explored inside the cave before.
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Upon their release, the team recounted their ordeal and thanked their rescuers at a press conference, wearing matching Wild Boars team shirts.
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Farmers in Texas described scenes of devastation left behind by wild boars, including five-foot-wide craters that stand three feet deep.
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Members of the Wild Boars again spoke to the media about their ordeal, the second time they've done so since being freed.
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In Belgium, dozens of wild boars have now been killed by the disease in the past month in the zone near France.
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The Wild Boars spent more than two weeks trapped in a cave before dozens of divers and hundreds of volunteers saved them.
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BEWARE RADIOACTIVE WILD BOARS: HUNTERS IN SWEDEN CONCERNED ABOUT CHERNOBYL&aposS FRIGHTENING LEGACY Quick-thinking onlookers helped the zookeeper escape the tiger's clutches.
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Jafar, another lelono, told me that he's seen wild boars, monkeys, and monitor lizards on a near daily basis since entering the forest.
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"It is not really clear now which is the master of the town, people or wild boars," noted mayor Tamotsu Baba in Reuters.
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The 12 boys of the "Wild Boars" team and their coach are recovering after last week's dramatic multinational rescue that drew global attention.
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The fever occurs among pigs and wild boars, has no vaccine and remains active for a long time, making it difficult to contain.
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In early 2010, a 42-mile fence was erected between Denmark and Germany to stop the deluge of wild boars crossing the border.
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"They damage both biodiversity and the agricultural economy," said María Fernanda Cuevas, a biologist who researches the ecology of wild boars in Argentina.
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On Wednesday, three of the Wild Boars said that when they grew up they wanted to become navy SEALS tasked with saving others.
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The team -- aka the Wild Boars -- were decked out in their spiffy Adidas uniforms and carrying their equipment in cool new travel bags.
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With that said, wild boars are a pretty neat way to underline much of this season's commentary on how insulated the Roys are.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's customs said it has banned imports of pigs, wild boars and related products from Indonesia due to African swine fever.
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The animal form of the disease is thought to infect wild boars, domestic pigs and deer, as well as rats and other rodents.
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The boys, aged 73-16, are all members of the Wild Boars soccer team and had been trapped in the cave since June 23rd.
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The youth team, known as the Wild Boars, had been trapped for 17 days in an underground cave system, until being freed this week.
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The Wild Boars soccer team had been exploring the cave complex when heavy rains and rising floodwaters blocked their path, leaving them trapped inside.
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On Monday, China banned imports of pigs, wild boars and products from Bulgaria following an outbreak of African swine fever in the European country.
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Those included preventing pigs from coming into contact with infected feed, meat products and equipment, and raising pigs far from areas with wild boars.
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The country has employed military snipers and civilian hunters, as well as drones, to track and kill wild boars near the North Korean border.
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The team, known as the 'Wild Boars', are honored guests at the Youth Olympics in the Argentine capital after their rescue gripped the world.
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For the next nine days, the coach and members of the Wild Boars soccer team will perform charity work and pray at a monastery.
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The government has tried to quietly control the population of wild boars and other wildlife in recent years with various strategies, to mixed reviews.
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"Pests will nest like wild boars," local farmers union FDSEA35 said in a statement, calling for dialog about the use of phytosanitary products instead.
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Some of the officers in the piece seem to be wild boars, with at least one community member depicted as something resembling a fox.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's agriculture ministry said on Wednesday that African swine fever had been detected in three dead wild boars in northwestern Shaanxi province.
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The Wild Boars and their coach entered the cave after their soccer practice on June 23, a week before the rainy season generally begins.
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Adaptable and resilient, wild boars are increasing across Continental Europe and in places far from their natural range, which spans Eurasia from Britain to Japan.
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Many of the boys, who were all part of the Wild Boars soccer team, didn't know how to swim and didn't have any diving experience.
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In December, a SpiceJet flight travelling from Mumbai to Jabalpur hit a herd of wild boars who had strayed into the runway during its landing.
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In fact, the wild boars are being irradiated by their own food: the wild mushrooms they depend on during the cold winter months, Reuters reports.
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The members of the team, called the "Wild Boars," were found Monday, after 10 days of search efforts since they went missing in Chiang Rai.
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It had been 18 days since the members of the Wild Boars soccer team were stranded before they were all safely out of the cave.
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Hardy men, they abided the swampy, mosquito- infested terrain and defied the frequent hurricanes, not to mention the indigenous bears, panthers, alligators, and wild boars.
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According to the AKC, Great Danes used to be used for hunting wild boars, but now they typically reside as the protectors of their homes.
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In September, Malaysia was dealing with an onslaught of wild boars thought to be swimming miles through the sea from Indonesia to Pulau Besar Island.
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In the US, wild boars cause more than $1.5 billion damage every year, and between 1982 and 2012 they spread from 17 states to 36.
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For weeks, parents had maintained a constant vigil outside the cave where members of the Wild Boars soccer team and their assistant coach were trapped.
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Nopparat Kanthawong, the head coach of the Wild Boars team, told CNN that he did not know why the boys had gone into the cave.
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On Monday night, members of the under-17s Wild Boars soccer team met and played football for the first time since their younger teammates disappeared.
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Other estates in Tuscany, however, remain vulnerable to the violent invasions of wild boars and deer, which has set off something of an arms race.
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For 10 days, Adul and his fellow Wild Boars soccer squad survived deep in the cave complex as their food, flashlights and drinking water diminished.
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With the English he used to communicate with the British divers on July 2, Adul was crucial in ensuring the safety of the Wild Boars.
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One by one, the divers brought the final four members of the Wild Boars team and their coach out of the flooded Tham Luang Cave.
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The members of the Wild Boars are a team on and off the soccer field, traveling to competitions, cycling mountain roads and swimming in waterfalls together.
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As the threat of radiation has diminished, the proliferation of wild boars has been somewhat concerning, but the current hazard is the buildings that are collapsing.
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China could also have got the virus from wild boars of the South Caucasus region but the likelihood of this scenario is low, Russia's Rosselkhoznadzor added.
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Bulgaria, a European Union member, has also reported around 20 cases of the disease in dead wild boars, in various regions, including border provinces with Romania.
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Hundreds of radioactive wild boars have reportedly taken over at least two towns located within the exclusion zone near the abandoned Fukushima power station in Japan.
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Heavy rains and rushing floodwaters have hampered the search for the Wild Boars soccer team, whose members have been trapped in the flooded cave since Saturday.
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"The world is watching," said Kham-oey Promthep, 64, grandmother of 13-year-old Duangpetch Promthep, or Dom, 13, captain of the 'Wild Boars' soccer team.
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The boys, all part of a youth soccer team known as the Wild Boars, were found last Monday after going missing more than two weeks ago.
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Noppadon and his son huddled with other teammates at the entrance to the cave, waiting for any word on the rest of the Wild Boars team.
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Dr. Larson and Keith Dobney of Liverpool University found that wild boars were domesticated twice, once in China and once in Anatolia, part of modern Turkey.
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HONG KONG — Three wild boars were spotted on Tuesday as they sauntered down a sidewalk near the Hong Kong equivalent of Times Square in New York.
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Notably, a program in which local officials allowed locals to hunt wild boars produced hundreds of kills — 281 from 2009 to 2013, according to government data.
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Rain was forecast for June 303, the day the Wild Boars made their excursion to Tham Luang, but the boys had ventured into the cave before.
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There have been only 10 recorded cases of wild boars injuring people since 2014, according to the AFCD -- but half of those incidents occurred last year.
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BEIJING, Dec 11 (Reuters) - China's agriculture ministry said on Wednesday that African swine fever had been detected in three dead wild boars in northwestern Shaanxi province.
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Of the thousands who fled the area, only a few have returned, leading to ghost towns — some of which are now overrun by radioactive wild boars.
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France has been on alert for African swine fever since Belgium detected the virus last month among wild boars a few kilometers from the French border.
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Two civilian hunting teams were previously authorized to shoot wild boars, but that was halted in 2017 due to concerns about animal welfare and public safety.
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Jintrakarn Sriwanithkul, 18, a student at the Mae Sai Prasitsart School attended by six of the Wild Boars, grew excited at word of the successful rescue.
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All last week, the world watched as the soccer team, known as the Wild Boars, were brought out of a partially flooded cave system in northern Thailand.
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The 12 Wild Boars players and their coach had entered the cave to go exploring June 23 but monsoon rains filled the tight passageways, blocking their escape.
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Bratchley was one of the 19 divers who assisted in the three-day rescue of the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach in Thailand last July.
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While out on an ice skating tour of Båven in Sweden, a group spotted four wild boars on the frozen water, unable to navigate the slippery ice.
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The young soccer team, nicknamed the "Wild Boars," had been missing, feared dead, since a trip to explore the cave after a practice session on June 23.
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Ekkapol Chantawong, 25, is the assistant coach of the Wild Boars soccer team, and was hiking with the players through the cave complex when they became stranded.
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Nine members of the "Wild Boars" team are still inside the Tham Luang cave after foreign and Thai divers guided four boys out safely late on Sunday.
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The analysis showed that wild boars were three to four times more likely to be found in the deserted zone than in the areas occupied by humans.
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The 12-member "Wild Boars" soccer team and their coach spent more than two weeks trapped inside a flooded cave in the northern province of Chiang Rai.
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It is fatal for pigs and wild boars, and can be transmitted in a number of ways, including direct contact and contamination of food waste and feed.
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ASF has also spread to a handful of neighboring Asian countries, including Vietnam and Cambodia, in addition to being detected in wild boars in parts of Europe.
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"Coach Ake is very dedicated to the team," said Noppadon Kanthawong, whose 13-year-old son plays on the Wild Boars but decided to skip the cave trip.
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Dressed in traditional orange robes with bare feet at a ceremony on Saturday, 11 members of the Wild Boars soccer team clutched bags embroidered with their team mascot.
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After two intense, exhausting back-to-back rescue operations, eight members of the Wild Boars soccer team have been freed from the Tham Luang cave complex in Thailand.
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The ban, expected to start next week, would cover live pigs and wild boars as well as carcasses from Myanmar, to prevent the disease from spreading into Thailand.
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In the US, in 2013 there were thought to be 5 million wild boars running loose, and they're responsible for more than $1 billion of damage every year.
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Officers learned about the cocaine stash after placing a wire on a member of a suspected drug dealing gang and heard them complaining about the wild boars' destruction.
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Wild boars are not native to La Pampa; they were brought from Europe for hunting more than a century ago by Pedro O. Luro, a banker and parliamentarian.
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Thai social media users on Wednesday were jubilant about the boys' rescue, with many posting drawings that depicted the rescued boys as wild boars — their soccer team mascot.
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"He sacrificed his life to protect and save us, the 13 Wild Boars, so we could go back outside and be happy, live a normal life," he said.
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The move by Thailand's military government is a stroke of luck for the boys, who play for a youth soccer team called Moo Pa, or the Wild Boars.
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Since the first case, South Korean soldiers stationed near the border were ordered to capture or shoot wild boars crossing the border to prevent the disease from spreading.
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Wild boars are known to be a nuisance to some rural Americans, as they run wild in certain areas, ruining property, and posing as a danger to residents.
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"We would love to welcome the team from Wild Boars Football Club and their rescuers to Old Trafford this coming season," the club said on its official Twitter account.
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Thailand Navy SEAL posted on Facebook showing rescuers locking hands with a caption reading: "We Thai and the international teams join forces to bring the young Wild Boars home."
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"Coach Aek is very dedicated to the team," said Noppadon Kanthawong, whose 13-year-old son plays on the Wild Boars but decided to skip Saturday&aposs cave trip.
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It is no anomaly that four of the 13 trapped in the cave are not Thai citizens, the Wild Boars&apos head coach, Nopparat Kanthawong, said in an interview.
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China, the world's top pork producer, culled 200,000 pigs following recent outbreaks, while France is building a fence after the virus was found in wild boars in neighboring Belgium.
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Just to give an example, there are about 70,000 wild boars shot every year in Brandenburg, whereas the big slaughterhouses for domestic pigs go through about 20,000 a night.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's agriculture ministry said on Monday it will ban pig farming in areas inhabited by wild boars to prevent the spread of highly contagious African swine fever.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China banned imports of pigs, wild boars and products from Bulgaria following an outbreak of African swine fever in the European country, Chinese customs said on Monday.
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"I want to thank Sergeant Sam," Ekkapol Chantawong, assistant coach of the Wild Boars soccer team, told Reuters, as the group placed flowers before a portrait of the diver.
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His father, Adisak told CNN Tuesday that he was "so happy and appreciative" of the international rescue effort that helped free his son and the Wild Boars soccer team.
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Dressed in the jerseys of their "Wild Boars" soccer team, the 12 young Thai boys and their coach joined host Ellen DeGeneres to discuss their tense rescue in July.
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THAILAND BOYS FREED FROM CAVE MOURN, HONOR DIVER WHO DIED IN RESCUE MISSION The Wild Boars and their coach had been pronounced generally healthy by doctors, aside from minor infections.
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Last month, however, several Republican lawmakers sought its removal because of the artist's portrayal of two police officers as wild boars — mischaracterized as pigs by many media outlets and critics.
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A cold and snowy winter is forcing them to feed on false truffles, an underground mushroom common in the Sumava mountain region shared by Czechs, Austrians, Germans - and wild boars.
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Beijing also banned visitors from bringing in pigs, wild boars, and products from Bulgaria and would seal the products on board any transport vehicles passing through China, the statement said.
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Utracán Journal UTRACÁN, Argentina — After days in the wilderness, the hunters drove up to the sports club in rusty pickup trucks with carcasses of wild boars splayed on their roofs.
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Ekkapol Ake Chantawong, the 25-year-old coach of the Wild Boars soccer team, has been criticized by some for what is perceived to be an act of supreme recklessness.
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On Tuesday, the border town of Mae Sai, where Adul lived at a church, finally had cause to celebrate, as the Wild Boars' 18-day ordeal came to an end.
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Separately, Germany and Poland are discussing new action to prevent the spread of African swine fever in wild boars in Poland close to the German border, Germany's agriculture ministry said.
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African swine fever, which affects only wild boars, warthogs, bush pigs and domestic pigs, is endemic in sub-Saharan and West Africa and was first detected in Kenya in 1921.
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Bulgaria built a fence on its land border with Romania last month in an attempt to prevent the crossing of wild boars that could spread the disease onto its territory.
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Divers practiced their rescue techniques in a swimming pool with local children about the same height and weight as the members of the Wild Boars soccer team trapped in the cave.
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China has culled 200,000 pigs due to outbreaks and warned of higher pork prices, while France has built a fence after the disease was found in wild boars in neighboring Belgium.
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African swine fever can be carried by wild boars but experts also stress that human factors such as transport, clothing and food waste can play a role in spreading the disease.
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Yet, when the 12 members of the Wild Boars soccer team and their assistant coach were rescued in July, they emerged largely physically unscathed and without lasting damage to their bodies.
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BEIJING, Oct 8 (Reuters) - China banned imports of pigs, wild boars and products from Bulgaria following an outbreak of African swine fever in the European country, Chinese customs said on Monday.
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Cajun Encounters will pick you up at your hotel and shuttle you to the swamp, where you will traverse brackish channels by boat in search of snakes, alligators and wild boars.
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All the members of the Wild Boars soccer team are in good health and are expected to be discharged from hospital by Thursday, the Health Ministry said in a statement Saturday.
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At the news conference on Wednesday evening, where they first appeared dribbling soccer balls to cheers from the assembled crowd, the Wild Boars admitted that they had acted like normal boys.
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Even after the divers found them, the Wild Boars and their coach had to prepare for the perilous escape mission, which began on July 8 and took three days to complete.
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The government has put 24 out of its 77 provinces on watch with restrictions on movement of pigs and wild boars, as well as its carcasses, semen or embryos for breeding.
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For the first time in many centuries, free-roaming wild boars are living and thriving in British woods, descendants of animals bred for meat that escaped or were purposely released from captivity.
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For days, several rescue teams, including divers with a Royal Thai Navy special operations unit, attempted to make their way through the cave's flooded passages to find the Wild Boars soccer team.
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The testing on wild boars is seen as significant because movements of disease-carrying wild hogs have contributed to the spread of African swine fever in the Baltic and Eastern Europe region.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China has banned imports of pigs, wild boars and related products from Slovakia to prevent the spread of African swine fever from the European country, China's customs said on Wednesday.
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Dressed in matching Wild Boars team shirts, the boys and their coach appeared happy and relaxed as they faced the world's media after being discharged from Chiang Rai Prachanukroh hospital on Wednesday.
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According to the New York Times, hundreds of toxic wild boars have been roaming the region and while boar is a delicacy in Japan, no one will want to eat these animals.
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The members of the Wild Boars were only released from hospital in the last week, after being rescued from a waterlogged cave by an international team of divers while the world watched.
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Rescue operations reached a successful climax at the Tham Luang Cave complex in northern Thailand on Tuesday, where divers pulled the last trapped members of the Wild Boars soccer team to safety.
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This summer, for example, two administrators at the University of Hong Kong were hospitalized after being attacked by wild boars near campus, in an upscale residential area on the city's main island.
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If pigs, wild boars and their products from Laos are found coming into China via ships, aircraft, road vehicles and railway trains, the shipments will be sealed and disposed of, it said.
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The stranded boys, members of the Wild Boars soccer team, have been invited to the World Cup Final in Moscow if they make it out in time and can physically handle the trip.
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Poowadet Khamngern, a 14-year-old who is also a member of the Wild Boars team, told USA TODAY that they'll all be "going to eat fried chicken at KFC" when they're reunited.
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South Korean officials suspected that the deadly animal disease may have been spread to South Korea from North Korea by wild boars across the heavily guarded Demilitarized Zone that separates the two Koreas.
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Speaking exclusively to CNN from the cave complex, Wongsukchan said he was "so happy and appreciative" of the international rescue effort that helped to free his son and the Wild Boars soccer team.
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An exploding population of voracious wild boars and deer that savor the sugary grapes and the vines' tender sprouts, but that are also part of the region's famed landscape, hunting traditions and cuisine.
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Wild boars, also known as Eurasian wild pigs, are the largest terrestrial mammals in Hong Kong, a city of more than seven million people, according to the local Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department.
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Three weeks after the world watched them emerge from a flooded cave complex, all but one of the Thai boys known as the Wild Boars began a ceremony to become novice Buddhist monks.
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It&aposs not clear if Zuckerberg was serious about hunting wild boars — shooting "feral hogs" was a meme last year that originated from a viral tweet debating the merits of owning assault rifles.
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Hundreds of toxic wild boars have been roaming across northern Japan, where the meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear plant six years ago forced thousands of residents to desert their homes, pets and livestock.
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Image 2 of 2 MAE SAI, Thailand – The members of the Wild Boars are a team both on and off the soccer field, traveling to competitions, cycling mountain roads and swimming in waterfalls together.
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But while the stars of the major European leagues, no matter what their origins, can stake a claim to fame and fortune, some of the Wild Boars cannot even count on a permanent home.
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In the nearby town of Tomioka, which is also overrun by wild boars, radiation levels are at about 1.48 microsieverts an hour, which is nearly 30 times higher than what's experienced in downtown Tokyo.
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Nopparat Kanthawong, the head coach of the Wild Boars team, said they received official Thai ID cards along with another team member who had not been in the cave but also applied for citizenship.
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The soccer team, known as the Wild Boars, had been missing since June 23, when heavy monsoon rains flooded the cave and trapped them in a chamber some 2.5 miles from the cave's mouth.
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The 12 boys of the "Wild Boars" soccer team and their coach are recovering from their ordeal and are to be discharged on Thursday from a hospital in the northern town of Chiang Rai.
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After the news conference, journalists have been asked to allow the Wild Boars to return to the business of being normal boys — something that would be impossible if the media glare around them continued.
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The 12 trapped boys are from the Moo Pa Academy (the name means "Wild Boars"), a soccer team in the Mae Sai district of Chiang Rai, and range in age from 11 to 16.
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"Illegally imported pigs, wild boars and their products from Laos intercepted by the frontier defense departments shall be destroyed under the supervision of the customs," China's General Administration of Customs said in a statement.
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Hunting organizations also say they are attempting to prevent an outbreak of rabies spread by foxes and to contain the African swine fever that has infected wild boars and disrupted Ukraine's domestic pork industry.
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The "Wild Boars" soccer team and their coach got trapped on June 23 when they set out to explore the vast cave complex after soccer practice, when a rainy season downpour flooded the tunnels.
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By Gaia Pianigiani Efforts in the Italian region of Chianti to reduce an exploding population of wild boars and deer, which devour grapes and the vines' tender sprouts, are creating issues of their own.
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Twelve members of the Wild Boars youth soccer team and their coach entered the sprawling Tham Luang cave network on June 23 last year and were trapped when a downpour flooded the cave complex.
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Unbeknown to most visitors, the green hills surrounding Hong Kong's skyscrapers are alive with swine: Wild boars regularly spook hikers and joggers on walking trails, and sometimes wander into dense urban areas to dumpster dive.
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The South Korean authorities were desperate to stop the wild boars in question, for fear that they might inadvertently import African swine fever, a disease known to have been present in North Korea since May.
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The "Wild Boars," aged between 11 and 16, and their 25-year-old coach were trapped on June 23 while exploring a cave complex in the province of Chiang Rai when a downpour flooded the passageways.
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But, as the above video created by NPR's Skunk Bear explains, many domestic dogs have floppy (and adorable) ears — it's similar to domestic pigs when compared to wild boars, and farmed goats compared to wild goats.
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The famous soccer team -- aka The Wild Boars -- has been in LA for the past week ... taking on all the sights and sounds of Hollywood ... and stopped by 'Ellen' for a sit-down interview (airs Monday).
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The team of 12 boys — who were all between the ages of 11 and 27 and nicknamed the Wild Boars — had just finished a weekly soccer practice and went to explore the cave with their coach.
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The boys, members of a youth soccer team called the Wild Boars, and their coach spent nearly three weeks underground before an international team of divers and cave experts rescued them from the cave in July.
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As the threat of more rains that could further flood the cave loomed, a rescue mission to get the team, whose nickname is the Wild Boars, out of the cave began in earnest on Sunday morning.
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The hunting, gathering, violence, and crafting were all parts of daily life in the Stone Age, which makes the requirement of killing two wild boars for their skin to make a new pack a little more sensible.
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On June 23, 12 members of the Wild Boars soccer team — ranging in age from 11 to 16 — and their coach made their way into northern Thailand's Tham Luang Nang cave for one of their many adventures.
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Belgium's food safety agency on Thursday said that African swine fever (ASF) had been detected in the Etalle district near the French border, after the death of several wild boars raised suspicions that the virus was present.
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Donana park boasts a diverse ecosystem of lagoons marshlands, scrub woodland, beaches and sand dunes and is home to fallow deer, wild boars, European badgers and endangered species including the Spanish imperial eagle and the Iberian Lynx.
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It extends hunting outside the regular three-month season to licensed hunters or professionals, but allows them to shoot only wild boars and roe and fallow deer of a certain age and gender and with regimented procedures.
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BANGKOK — Before they were discovered trapped in a flooded cave in northern Thailand, the 12 members of the Wild Boars youth soccer team and their coach drained much of their energy trying to dig their way out.
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Using remote cameras, researchers from the University of Georgia recovered more than 267,000 photos of more than 20 species -- including racoon dogs, wild boars, macaques, pheasants, foxes and Japanese hares in the areas surrounding the power plant.
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STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - France will start putting up fencing along part of its border with Belgium this weekend to prevent wild boars spreading African swine fever, a virulent livestock disease that could disrupt Europe's large pig industry.
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Namie is the closest area to the nuclear meltdown residents have been allowed to return to since the disaster on March 11, 2011, but the continued presence of wild boars in the region is making prospective homecomers nervous.
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Experts believe that the wild boars may have run out of food on an island in the middle of the water and were in search of food, becoming stranded on the ice during their journey to the mainland.
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In February, after years of lamenting, the region approved a law aimed at drastically reducing the number of wild boars and deer over the next three years, bringing the population to around 150,000 from more than 400,000 today.
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Another study on genetic damage in earthworms and wild boars shows there are molecular impacts of radiation exposure, but these studies need to be continued over time to see if this DNA damage manifests at the population level.
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The results revealed "no evidence" that the area's large animals—wild boars, hares, pheasants, macaques, and foxes—had suffered long-term population losses, and that "several species were most abundant in human‐evacuated areas," according to the study.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Authorities in Indonesia's West Java province have called a halt to contests pitting dogs against wild boars, following media coverage of the bloody spectacle and pressure by animal rights activists, the provincial governor's spokesman said on Tuesday.
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As their daughter's boyfriend sat in a deer blind on the family's 226-acre property across the road, Lynn Robbins explained that a game camera recently captured about 15 wild boars traipsing across their land in a single night.
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In March, Hong Kong officials said they would spend two years trying to reduce the population of wild boars by trapping them, injecting them with contraceptives and outfitting them with GPS devices so that officers could track their movements.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Friday it has banned direct and indirect imports of pigs, wild boars and related products from Laos due to the first African swine fever outbreaks reported by the Southeast Asian nation on June 20.
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The dramatic rescue marks the end of a more than two-week ordeal which began when the "Wild Boars" team and their coach became trapped inside the flooded Tham Luang cave on the border with Myanmar on June 23.
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"Bringing the Wild Boars Home," read a banner in Thai on the set, designed to resemble a soccer field, complete with goalposts and nets, where the boys arrayed themselves on a dais, beside five members of the rescue team.
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The five Wild Boars who emerged Tuesday were immediately taken by ambulance and helicopter to a hospital in Chiang Rai, the nearest large city, and were to be placed in quarantine with the eight boys rescued Sunday and Monday.
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THAI CAVE RESCUE TIMELINE: THE DANGEROUS RACE TO BRING TRAPPED SOCCER TEAM HOME The 12 Wild Boars players and their coach had entered the cave to go exploring June 23 but monsoon rains filled the tight passageways, blocking their escape.
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Image: APAn 18-day ordeal in which the Wild Boars soccer team was trapped inside a flooded cave complex in northern Thailand has finally come to an end, with the twelfth team member and the coach exiting the cave earlier today.
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FENCES, HUNTS, PROTESTS To try to cut risks, Paju has set up fences to try to block wild boars from crossing into tourist spots as well as stepping up efforts to hunt the animals, an official at Paju city hall said.
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The "Wild Boars" soccer team, aged between 11 and 16, and their 25-year-old coach became trapped on June 23 while exploring the cave complex in the northern province of Chiang Rai when a rainy season downpour flooded the tunnels.
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The 12 members of the Wild Boars youth soccer team and their coach never stopped thinking of ways to free themselves from the flooded Tham Luang Nang Non cave in northern Thailand during the weeks-long ordeal that captured global attention.
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On Tuesday, friends and family huddled around northern Thailand's Tham Luang Nang cave as they anxiously awaited any word from rescue teams about the Wild Boars soccer team, whose members have been trapped in the flooded cave since Saturday, reports say.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China banned imports of pigs, wild boars and products from Belgium after an outbreak of African swine fever, as well as imports from Japan after a regular swine fever outbreak, the General Administration of Customs said on Tuesday.
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Four years later to the day, he returned, having literally circumnavigated the world by foot and endured muggings, arrests, the odd beating and attacks from a variety of wildlife – including wild boars, ants, snakes and a bison – along the way.
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SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria is building a fence along its border with Romania to keep out wild boars that could carry the deadly infection African swine fewer to farm pigs and threaten the country's pork industry, the agriculture minister said on Tuesday.
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Wild boars and deer are sweeping across Tuscany in an invasion the likes of which the land of Romulus and Remus hasn't seen since Hannibal led his Carthaginian hordes over the Alps on the backs of his fearsome war elephants.
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The last of the 12-member "Wild Boars" soccer team and their coach were brought out of the Tham Luang cave, near the border with Myanmar, on Tuesday night, safely ending a perilous rescue and evoking international relief and joy.
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The 12 boys, known as the Wild Boars soccer team, and their coach visited the cave in June on the anniversary of the rescue to pay their respects to Thai Navy SEAL diver Saman Gunan, who died during the rescue mission.
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The last group of the 12-member "Wild Boars" soccer team and their coach was brought out of the Tham Luang cave, near the border with Myanmar, on Tuesday night, safely ending a dangerous rescue and evoking international relief and joy.
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"For the Wild Boars, they will ordain to redeem vows that their parents made, and more important, they will ordain in order to consign merit to Lieutenant Commander Saman Gunan's soul," said Anyatida Musittavee, 32, an office worker in Bangkok.
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It was a frightening moment in what had been a surprisingly smooth rescue of the soccer team, the Wild Boars, who had survived the murky darkness of Thailand's Tham Luang Cave, sometimes by licking water off the cold limestone walls.
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BEIJING, June 21 (Reuters) - China said on Friday it has banned direct and indirect imports of pigs, wild boars and related products from Laos due to the first African swine fever (ASF) outbreaks reported by the country on June 20.
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Thirty years after a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, radiation is still turning up in some unexpected places: for instance, in the wild boars tramping through the mountains of the Czech Republic — almost a thousand miles away.
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And so a rescue mission to get the team, nicknamed the Wild Boars, out of the cave began on Sunday morning, when 13 specialist divers and five Thai Navy SEALS were sent in to try to reach the boys and escort them out.
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark said Thursday it will build a 70 kilometer (43.5 mile) fence on its German border to keep out wild boars that can carry the deadly infection African swine fewer to farm pigs and threaten the country's large pork industry.
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Instead of being reunited with their children, the boys' families have agreed to remain at the cave site until all of the boys and their soccer coach are brought out of the cave, a relative of one of the Wild Boars told CNN.
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The 12 boys, aged 11 to 2693, and the 25-year-old coach of the "Wild Boars" soccer team returned home on Wednesday after being discharged from hospital and appearing on national television to describe their ordeal inside the Tham Luang cave.
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On a walk with her dogs one rainy day in February, Ms. Leaney noted that — but for the alligators, the wild boars and the occasional teenagers firing their shotguns — the woods that surround the reservoir's diversion channel could pass for the English countryside.
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"I want to thank Sergeant Sam," Ekkapol Chantawong, assistant coach of the Wild Boars soccer team, told Reuters Video News, as the group placed flowers before a portrait of the diver, set beside a row of shaven-headed monks in orange robes.
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That paragraph begins, however, with a description of the Northwest Territory as "teeming with wolves, bears, wild boars, panthers, rattlesnakes and the even more deadly copperheads," as if the native people were comparably wild and venomous, to be hunted down, beaten back, exterminated.
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The last of the "Wild Boars" football team and their coach were brought out of the cave late on Tuesday after a dangerous rescue that unleashed joy across Thailand, and earned the boys celebrity plaudits from Italy and Spain to England and Brazil.
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Schengen struggles "Europe is very worried about further spread," Dixon said, with the large number of wild boars that roam freely being a primary concern, aided by the Schengen zone that allows Europeans to travel between 26 countries without any border checks.
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"The Belgian authorities announced yesterday that two isolated cases of African swine fever in two wild boars found dead in the forest in the region of Etalle," a Commission spokeswoman told a news conference, adding the EU executive was in close contact with Belgian authorities.
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Lertwilairattanapong said the children, ranging in age from 11 to 16, had lost an average of 2 kg (4.4 lbs.) during the ordeal but hadn't lost their appetite — according to CNN, the Wild Boars players were asking for chocolate spread on bread on Tuesday.
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MAE SAI, Thailand – The 12 boys and coach of the Wild Boars soccer team who were rescued from a cave in Thailand last week share a characteristic with many of the professional European clubs its youthful members idolize: They are a multiethnic, cross-border crew.
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Fukushima Is Now Home To Radioactive Wild BoarsAfter a nuclear disaster, wildlife tends to flourish in contaminated areas, unchecked by humans…Read more ReadAfter the disaster, hundreds of wild boars descended onto previously populated areas of Fukushima, arriving from the nearby forests and hills.
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Chiang Rai, Thailand (CNN)Members of the "Wild Boars" Thai youth soccer team and their coach have described their rescue from a flooded cave as a miracle, thanked the experts who saved them and discussed how the experience will affect the rest of their lives.
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The last members of the group of 13 from the "Wild Boars" soccer team were brought out of the flooded cave on Tuesday night and taken by helicopter and then by road to a hospital about 70 km (45 miles) from the Thames Lung cave.
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So many things could have gone wrong as an international team of divers, experts and military personnel worked together at Tham Luang cave system in Mae Rai, Thailand, this summer to try and save 12 members of the local Wild Boars soccer team and their coach.
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"The Belgian authorities announced yesterday two isolated cases of African swine fever in two wild boars found dead in the forest in the region of Etalle," a Commission spokeswoman told a news conference in Brussels, adding the EU executive was in close contact with Belgian authorities.
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HAMBURG (Reuters) - Germany and Poland are discussing new action to prevent the spread of the pig disease African swine fever (ASF) in wild boars in Poland close to the German border including border fences and increased hunting of the animals, Germany's agriculture ministry said on Tuesday.
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HAMBURG (Reuters) - Germany and Poland are discussing new action to prevent the spread of the pig disease African swine fever (ASF) in wild boars in Poland close to the German border including border fences and increased hunting of the animals, Germany's agriculture ministry said on Tuesday.
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It hardly seems like the site of a two-week-long, 153,000-person rescue operation that would pit the resolve of at least one government against the near-constant rain of the country's monsoon season, in a contest to save the Wild Boars, a local boys soccer team.
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MAE SAI, Thailand — Just weeks after they emerged from a flooded cave complex, guided to safety by expert divers while their families and supporters around the world awaited word of their safety, the Thais known as the Wild Boars began a ceremony on Tuesday to become novice Buddhist monks.
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Thailand's new king donated supplies, and people across the nation volunteered in any way they could, cooking meals for rescuers, operating pumps to suck water out of the cave and hunting for hidden cracks in the limestone formations through which the Wild Boars could perhaps be lifted to safety.
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The meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear plant six years ago forced thousands of residents to leave the surrounding area, but now the Japanese government wants residents to return home After people deserted the towns, wild boars emerged from local forests to scavenge for food and, according to local media, have flourished.
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The July 25 ordination of 11 boys of the Wild Boars soccer team along with the 25-year-old coach was especially dedicated to a former Thai navy SEAL, Saman Gunan, who died while diving during a volunteer mission to supply the cave with oxygen tanks essential to a successful rescue.
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The Wild Boars soccer team — ranging in age from 11 to 16 — had been exploring the Tham Luang Nang Non cave complex in northern Thailand with their 25-year-old coach on June 23 when heavy rains and rising floodwaters blocked their path, leaving the group unable to get out.
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Tham Luang caves, Thailand (CNN)The last remaining member of the Wild Boars soccer team and their assistant coach have been pulled out of a flooded cave in Thailand, bringing an end to a near three-week ordeal that prompted an international rescue effort and captivated audiences around the world.
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ROME — Thousands of Romans gathered in front of City Hall on Saturday morning to protest the state of the Italian capital, where garbage is piled high on pothole-filled streets that have become a hazard for cars but a haven for wild boars, and where public buses catch on fire.
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It was not until that evening that national park officials determined that the boys, aged 11 to 93, members of a soccer club called the Wild Boars, were missing in the cave and initiated a search that turned into an international effort conducted in the glare of the global media.
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THAI CAVE RESCUE TIMELINE: THE DANGEROUS RACE TO BRING TRAPPED SOCCER TEAM HOME "Two days, eight Boars," read an earlier Facebook post by the Thai navy SEALS about the operation at the Tham Luan Nang Non cave that began Sunday, more than two weeks after the Wild Boars soccer team became trapped.
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At least 122 cases of African swine fever have been reported in China in both its domestic pigs and wild boars since the first case was confirmed last August and the incurable disease has spread to other parts of Asia, including Vietnam where it accounts for about three-quarters of the total meat diet.
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Battling the rains The boys, who are between 11 and 16 and are members of the Wild Boars soccer team, had been exploring the cave network with their soccer coach on June 23, when heavy seasonal rains flooded the cave's entrance, forcing the group further and further into the labyrinth of tunnels in search of high ground.
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She was with me on Corsica last year when I was filming this absolutely terrible independent movie, and I remember we got out of the car and walked down these ancient crumbling stairs to the beach, and we had this long swim, but when we came back the car was surrounded by all of these wild boars.
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The boys and coach of the Wild Boars soccer team were released from the hospital on Wednesday and at a news conference described how they got trapped in the cave, and after 10 days cut off from the outside world, were astonished to see two British divers rising from muddy waters and assuring them work was underway to rescue them.
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Photo: APTesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who this weekend announced he had directed a team of engineers to build a "tiny, kid-size submarine" (really more of an air-filled metal box) to help extract the 12 boys and coach of Thai soccer team Wild Boars stranded in the flooded Tham Luang cave complex for weeks, is apparently on site in northern Thailand.
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Read more: Twitter is being flooded with memes after an Arkansas father described needing to kill '30-50 feral hogs' as a defense of assault weaponsFeral hogs aren't just a viral sensation — they're an increasing problem in southern citiesWalton added that his "work isn't done" — as large cities like San Antonio continue to develop, wild boars will continue to find their way into populated areas where they wouldn't normally be found.
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Image 28 of 29 MAE SAI, Thailand – A day-by-day look at the ordeal of 210 boys and their soccer coach, who were trapped deep inside a flooded cave in northern Thailand for more than two weeks: June 23: After a morning practice, 12 members of the local Wild Boars youth soccer team bicycle with their 25-year-old coach to the Tham Luang Nang Non cave to explore, when heavy rains begin.
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Human spread Humans were the "most likely route of infection" for the boars in Belgium last week, believes Linda Dixon, researcher in genomics of African swine fever at the Pirbright Institute in the UK. Since the infected pigs were found in a forest area, more than 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) from any infected territories, she suspects that people consumed infected meat products and then left them in the forest where wild boars ate them.
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Read more:Twitter is being flooded with memes after an Arkansas father described needing to kill '30-50 feral hogs' as a defense of assault weaponsThe man behind the viral 'feral hog' tweet spoke out for the first time, and he shared that feral hogs invaded his yard several timesBooming populations of wild boars, some of which are radioactive, are menacing major cities like Hong Kong and BarcelonaTexans are paying up to $50,000 to hunt feral hogs from helicopters with machine guns
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One of her favorite walks is likely much as it was then: through the sprawling Grunewald forest, where Nabokov once hunted butterflies and wild boars still roam under the towering pines, to the Châlet Suisse, a traditional Swiss restaurant in the middle of the woods still popular for its rustic surroundings and Alpine fare, and on to the Jagdschloss Grunewald, a striking lakeside 16th-century hunting lodge that is Berlin's oldest preserved palace, home to its most extensive collection of work by the German Renaissance painters Lucas Cranach the Elder and Younger.
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BEIJING, Aug 15 (Reuters) - * China has banned the imports of pigs, wild boars and related products from Myanmar because of concerns about African swine fever, the country's customs office said on Thursday * The ban, issued on Thursday, came after Myanmar reported its first case of the deadly disease on Wednesday, the General Administration of Customs said in a statement published on its website * The move comes as China battles its own African swine fever outbreak, which has spread to all provinces and regions on its mainland, as well as Hong Kong and Hainan island, since the virus was first detected last August (Reporting by Hallie Gu and Dominique Patton; editing by Christian Schmollinger)
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BEIJING, Jan 31 (Reuters) - * China's customs said on Thursday it has banned pigs, wild boars, and products from Mongolia after the Asian country reported African swine fever outbreaks in mid-January * The ban, effective Tuesday, came as China battles the world's fastest-spreading epidemic of the deadly disease on its own land, which has reached 25 of its provinces since early August and led to culling of more than 900,000 pigs * The new rule was put in place to prevent the deadly virus from spreading to China from Mongolia, and protect the domestic livestock sector, China's General Administration of the Customs said in a statement published on its website * China has not approved the import of the Mongolian pork.
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The attempts to control the current outbreak in Asia have failed for a number of reasons, including "rampant smuggling of pork products," according to researchers writing in February in the journal Antiviral Research: New outbreaks are still ongoing due to complex factors, including difficult control of long borders, frequent exchanges of personnel and products with affected countries, rampant smuggling of pork products, large populations and high densities of domestic pigs and wild boars, high numbers of backyard and small pig farms with poor biosecurity, difficult control of long-distance, trans-region transportation of live pigs and pork products, and the difficulty of early detection of ASF, due to confusion of early clinical signs with other diseases.
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" Here is a list of what each animal represents: * The white elephant: former Chiang Rai governor Narongsak Osatanakorn, who led the rescue operation * The wild boars: the boys and their coach * The seals: the Thai Navy SEALs * The frogs: the world-class divers involved in the mission * The white horse: all of the heroes who have been involved in the mission * The lion: rescuers from England * The kangaroo: rescuers from Australia * The moose: rescuers from Sweden * The dog: the K9 unit * The brown elephant: rescuers from Laos * The tiger: rescuers from China * The dragon: the water-pumping and drilling teams * The crane: rescuers from Japan * The swallows: climbers from Libong, Thailand * The Iron Man: Elon Musk * The eagle: rescuers from the US * The birds: reporters * The single crow: bad comments and obstacles "Very cute picture.
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