SINGAPORE: Two adult wild boars and three piglets were found in a trap off Sime Road near the Central Catchment Nature Reserve on Sunday (Oct 7).
"The pigs were found very distressed, desperately trying to get out by knocking themselves on the metal cage," said Ms Anbarasi Boopal, deputy chief executive of the Animal Concerns Research and Education Society (ACRES).
Advertisement"They also appeared stressed from the vehicle traffic just on the road."
A member of the public had alerted ACRES to the matter, said Member of Parliament Louis Ng, who is the founder and chief executive of ACRES.
He shared a video of the trapped animals on Facebook, saying investigations into who laid the trap are ongoing.
AdvertisementAdvertisementACRES said it arrived at the scene at about 4pm, adding that it took about 20 minutes to rescue the animals.
"We had to carefully cover the cage on all sides to minimise the stress, climb on top of the cage to open the cage door safely so they can run out to the forests and not to the road," said Ms Boopal.
She added that some leftover corn was found in the cage, and that the boars could have been trapped in the late morning or early afternoon on Sunday.
[h=3]READ: What to do if a wild boar gets caught in your headlights[/h][h=3]READ: Wild boar sightings in Punggol not uncommon but rarely a problem, say residents[/h]ACRES said it has not come across any wild boars caught in traps at Sime Road prior to this incident, although it has investigated more than 20 cases of wildlife poaching in Singapore, especially birds, in 2017.
Last August, ACRES responded to a case of wild boars being illegally trapped in Segar Road in Bukit Panjang. It was one of at least three cases that the group has been alerted to in the past couple of years.
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