With a fatality rate of almost 100%, #ASF has swept across #Asia, #Europe and #Africa, devastating domestic and wild pig populations over the past 10 to 20 years. In #Borneo, the loss of #BeardedPigs is already having an enormous impact on cultures and communities that depend on them for food. Before, bearded pigs once accounted for 81% of hunted wildlife by weight in some villages. Now, that number is closer to zero. #SwineFever

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/19/african-swine-fever-asian-wild-pigs-borneo-aoe

‘The pigs have disappeared’: swine fever threatens food source for millions as disease hits wild herds

Scientists call for urgent intervention, as bearded pig populations are devastated by the deadly virus on islands such as Borneo

The Guardian