The Philippines hosts five wild pig species, and they’re all threatened with extinction
LEYTE , Philippines – “Whenever I had no money to buy food, I used to set snare traps like this,” demonstrates Ed Permangil, who spent 30 years trapping Philippine warty pigs in the mountains of Leyte . “When a pig steps on this spring-loaded snare, one of its legs might get entangled. Snared pigs can last up to a week before dying of dehydration. We slaughter, gut, and chop pigs up right in the jungle and bring down just the meat.
JUNGLE SIGNPOST. A boar skull, its teeth and tusks yanked off to make lucky charms, is lashed to a wooden post in Leyte. Gregg Yan/Rappleris found in Tawi-Tawi, plus other islands in Indonesia and Malaysia. BOMBS. Retired hunter Iñigo Orias shows off three live ‘ping-pong’ or pig-killing bombs. Gregg Yan/Rappleror makeshift shotgun,” reveals former hunter Iñigo Orias. “The areas wild pigs inhabit are the same areas where rebel cells operate, so we don’t want to be mistaken for combatants. It’s safer to just lay traps and wait.”
TOOLS OF THE TRADE. A homemade 12-gauge shotgun, nylon ropes to make snare traps and various paraphernalia to make explosives called pong are brought out by a former hunter in Leyte. Though illegal, these are still used by poachers throughout the Philippines. Gregg Yan/RapplerWildlife Resources Conservation and Protection Act
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