Wild boar sighting frequent in Shah Alam housing area

WILD boars have been spotted rummaging through rubbish looking for food in Bukit Bandaraya, Shah Alam.

One resident who saw a wild boar eating food scraps from a toppled rubbish bin outside a house managed to capture the scene on his smartphone.

Bukit Bandaraya Residents Association (BBRA) chairman Hasnor Mohd Jan said one adult wild boar with several young ones were often seen along Jalan Gunung Nuang U11/26 and U11/32.

“We have seen them run up a hillock off Jalan Gunung Nuang U11/36.

“They seem to be coming from a private land that has a path linked to Bukit Cherakah and the Shah Alam National Botanical Gardens,” he said.

Hasnor added that a motorist nearly got into an accident and had to swerve to avoid a wild boar crossing Jalan Gunung Nuang U11/36.

Bukit Bandaraya in Section U11 has 208 houses known as Emillia and Collaris.

Emillia Community chairman Mohd Fazrul Mohd Rashid said residents have had to put up with wild boars since 2014 but the frequency of such occurences had increased.

“People used to spot them once in a while but now it is a weekly affair and they can now be seen even in the afternoons.”

Shah Alam City Council (MBSA) councillor Vincent Chow, who is in charge of the area, said he had several discussions with residents on the issue.

“I had written to the owner of the private land on Feb 8 with a suggestion to fence up a 280m stretch along Jalan Gunung Nuang U11/36.

“This is the only unfenced part bordering the forested area and we hope the landowner will instal it soon,” he said.

Selangor Wildlife and National Parks Department (Perhilitan) director Wan Mohd Adib Wan Mohd Yusoh said the wild boars’ natural habitat was the Bukit Cherakah forested area.

“Our approach is to manage the situation as we cannot eradicate them.

“We understand that the boars enter through a parcel of land off Jalan Gunung Nuang U11/36.”

Wan Mohd Adib added that the department had placed traps to capture and translocate the wild boars, with the aim of thinning the herd at the outermost perimeter of the forest.

“To manage conflicts between humans and wild boars, we advise people not to feed the animals and to dispose of their rubbish properly,

“If this is not done, it may lead to boars relying on people as an easy source of food,” he said.