Here's one pua'a that won't be making it to an imu! The wild boar was on the side of Hawaii's Queen Kaahumanu highway on the Kohala coast. No luau for us this week! (Although, if you're going to eat roadkill you could do worse....)
Overpopulation of wild pigs on the Big Island is an issue with land management agencies because of the damage that they do to the fragile natural environment. They trample and disrupt the indigenous plants and disrupt the ecosystem. Pigs were originally introduced to the Hawaiian islands when they were first settled by the ancient Polynesians that discovered the islands. Without any natural predators pigs thrived in the wild. In the 1700's the European settlers introduced even larger pigs. These 150 pound boars, as this roadkill can attest, still roam the countryside.
