Nepal reclassifies wild boars as pests, allowing farmers to kill them on private land for a year to protect crops and reduce conflict.

Nepal has redeclared wild boars as agricultural pests, allowing farmers to capture or kill them without permits on private land outside protected areas for one year. The move, effective immediately, aims to reduce crop damage and human-wildlife conflict as expanding forests shrink farmland. Farmers must report killings or captures and hand over live animals to wildlife offices. The policy follows a similar rule for rhesus monkeys and responds to growing rural hardship, including abandoned farms and occasional injuries.