Wild boar hunting practices have welfare implications related to hunting methods, wounding rates, and management of sows with young.
Wild boar wounded but not immediately killed by hunters suffer from untreated injuries over days or weeks before dying or being found. Drive hunting causes panicked flight stress in entire social groups including piglets. Killing lactating sows orphans piglets that starve without care. Better hunting standards, shooter training, and harvest timing can reduce these welfare harms.