"It's destroying our livelihood." Officials offer 5-figure bounties to combat feral hog population ravaging local community: ...

News about species making a comeback due to responsible conservation efforts is always encouraging and inspiring.

In Hawai‘i, people, pigs, and ecosystems only have so much room to coexist, and the pigs exist a little too much.

A number of cities across Europe have reported issues with boars in recent years, and both Hong Kong and Japan have taken steps to reduce their wild pig populations. Hong Kong adopted a strategy of ...

just in case a wild animal causes real trouble. "Let me explain something to you; we're in the country, we hunt, we have wild ...

Swine can act as so-called “mixing vessels” for human and bird flus, giving avian viruses an opportunity to adapt for spreading in people.

The Oregon pig infection looks like it came from infected chickens on the same small farm, which in turn were probably ...

Three animals who were once confined at the now-closed Waccatee Zoo were moved to accredited sanctuaries on Sunday, a news ...

The Oregon farm has been quarantined, and other animals there, including sheep and ... Tests are still pending for two of the pigs, the agency said. The swine case originated with wild birds and not ...

NEW YORK -- A pig at an Oregon farm was found to have bird flu, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday. It's ...

Pigs are mixing bowls for bird flu and human flu viruses, increasing the risk of mutations that help H5N1 spread to humans. It's still not inevitable.

The recent detection on an Oregon farm raises the risk of the influenza virus acquiring mutations that lead to a pandemic ...