Assertion: wild boar | /r/HasProperty | invasive
Facets:
value: in the americas
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Sus scrofa are called ‘wild boar’ in the areas where they are endemic and ‘feral pigs’ in the areas where they are invasive.
text: Wild boars are an invasive species in the Americas and cause problems including out-competing native species for food, destroying the nests of ground-nesting species, killing fawns and young domestic livestock, destroying agricultural crops, eating tree seeds and seedlings, destroying native vegetation and wetlands through wallowing, damaging water quality, coming into violent conflict with humans and pets and carrying pig and human diseases including brucellosis, trichinosis and pseudorabies.
text: This expansion poses a threat to the agriculture, conservation and livestock health sectors, as the wild boar is an invasive and pest species causing substantial economic loss .