Thread: Radioactive Wild Boar in Sweden

This will be a big blow for the hunting industry in Sweden. Shooting glow in the dark pigs sounds like fun though

Radioactive wild boar spark concerns in Sweden 31 years after Chernobyl - NZ Herald

Teenage mutant ninja pigs ?
Heard the same things happening near Fukashima, in Japan.

1st up
Do not believe everything via NZ Herald our AP (Associated Press)
From what I know about all animal life in the radioactive fallout Zone from Chernobyl – everything is thriving and showing no negative symptoms.
I imagine however - the damage was done at an earlier stage - and has self-cleansed, and now we have a "super species" (slight exaggeration there)

Originally Posted by Sarvo

1st up
Do not believe everything via NZ Herald our AP (Associated Press)
From what I know about all animal life in the radioactive fallout Zone from Chernobyl – everything is thriving and showing no negative symptoms.
I imagine however - the damage was done at an earlier stage - and has self-cleansed, and now we have a "super species" (slight exaggeration there)

Yea the animals can thrive and do well but that does not mean they dont have harmfull levels of radiation for us to eat, just like sharks and other top predators and mercury or shellfish in polluted waters.

There's a hot old boar roaming around Wellington at present, thinks he glows in the dark as well.

I thought that animals are affected by radiation they just don't normally live long enough for the effects to show.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Yea the animals can thrive and do well but that does not mean they dont have harmfull levels of radiation for us to eat, just like sharks and other top predators and mercury or shellfish in polluted waters.

Re yr Microwave pic
Wife was 70ks from Chernobyl when it went ballistic (it went NW luckily for Kiev but not so lucky for Belarus)
She wont (and never has) used a Microwave - prob why she can cook in the palm of her hand

Hi,
Im hunting in an area in northern black forest, germany.
Where i hunt boars are ok to eat, but 20miles to the south, where it rained after chernobyl, boars have to be discarded.
Over in bavaria there are parts where boars contain 30 times the dosage of what should be ok for humans to consume. So these boars have to be discarded as nuclear waste.


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we took a Swedish guy out hunting and he told us that the trees got a lot of radiation there so when you burn the wood in your logburner you are concentrating it .the ash out of there fires is radioactive and has to be dumped in a special place.

That's what shagging Kermit the frog gets you.....glow in the dark piglets......bad miss Piggy dirty dirty dirty

Sounds like a nasty problem, maybe 1080 ain't as bad as nuclear fallout. Think I would rather have the 1080 than radiation but better still neither of them.

think its bad in sweden,in russia they sent a quarter of a million people in to there death to fix the Chernobyl problem.

I hope you dont mind my asking: whats that 1080 thing exactly, and how are hunters seeing that issue?

Sorry for my ignorance...here in germany we have never heard of it.,,

1080 is a poison. The government uses it to control pest species like rats and possums by dropping it on national park land. The pests are introduced species with no natural predators. It’s an intractable problem. Many hunters are bitterly opposed to the practice but there are arguments for and against.

Yeh as WillB said it is a very controversial subject over here, The bait used is either carrot or cereal pellets and mostly applied by helicopter. As the poison is sowin throughout the target areas it is often available for deer etc to eat thus the concern from hunters over here. Also it closes up a lot of area after a drop as there is about a 5-6 month no hunting timeframe imposed on those areas so that any uneaten poison has a chance to be rendered safe by the weather. Poison is laid for TB control, pest control for projects like "Bring back the Birds" as possums and rats and stoats are notorious at killing our native species.
As stated there is for and against for the use of 1080 but generally most people oppose it's use.