Wild boar populations expanding across Europe and North America generate agricultural conflicts managed through hunting, with welfare outcomes for hunted animals varying enormously by method.
Welfare outcomes from wild boar management depend critically on method. Driven hunts with large numbers of shooters result in high wounding rates as stressed animals run at speed past firing lines. Night shooting with good equipment can achieve clean kills but requires skilled operators. Trapping entire family groups and killing them on site eliminates the wounding and chasing welfare costs but requires more labor investment. The welfare case for method selection in boar management is strong, and jurisdictions requiring minimum welfare standards for game management have lower documented wounding rates.