Ecology, Conservation and Management of Wild Pigs and Peccaries

Table 26.1

Overview of the conservation status of pigs and peccaries and their main threats. Data from the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2016-3. http://www.iucnredlist.org

Species

Common name

IUCN status

Over-hunting

Small popula

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tion size

Habitat loss/deforestation

Habitat quality

Endemism

Hybridization

Disease

Family TayassuidaeCatagonus wagneri

Chacoan peccary

EN

X

X

X

X

Tayassu pecari

White-lipped peccary

VU

X

X

X

Pecari tajacu

Collared peccary

LC

X

X

Family SuidaeSus ahoenobarbus

Palawan bearded pig

VU

X

X

X

X

Sus barbatus

Sunda bearded pig

VU

X

X

X

Sus blouchi

Bawean warty pig

DD

X

X

Sus cebifrons

Visayan warty pig

CR

X

X

X

X

X

Sus celebensis

Sulawesi warty pig

NT

X

X

X

Sus oliveri

Mindoro warty pig

EN

X

X

X

X

X

X

Sus philippensis

Philippine warty pig

VU

X

X

X

Sus scrofa

Eurasian wild boar

LC

Sus verrucosus

Javan warty pig

EN

X

X

X

X

X

Babyrousa babyrussa

Moluccan babirusa

VU

X

X

X

Babyrousa celebensis

Sulawesi babirusa

VU

X

X

X

Babyrousa togeanensis

Togean babirusa

EN

X

X

X

Phacochoerus aethiopicus

Desert warthog

LC

X

Phacochoerus africanus

Common warthog

LC

Porcula salvania

Pygmy hog

CR

X

X

X

Potamochoerus larvatus

Bush pig

LC

Potamochoerus porcus

Red river hog

LC

X

Hylochoerus meinertzhageni

Forest hog

LC

X

X

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