A warning from the director of the Canadian Wild Pig Research Project to Ontario officials, act fast to control the growing population of the animals.
Ryan Brook, who is also an associate professor at the University of Saskatchewan, says right now there has been a relatively low number of wild pig sightings in Ontario but he notes without a plan it won't stay that way.
Brook tells the CBC, the pigs have huge reproduction rates, are voracious eaters, are smart and highly mobile, making them the ideal invasive species.
The province's Ministry of Natural Resources has started a tip line, and reports of the wild pigs are up after a pair of the animals were photographed on a farm in Chatham last month.
But Brook says while the tip line is a good first step, the province needs to act now.
The wild pigs are the result of a breeding program started in Canada in the 1980's that saw domestic pigs bred with imported Eurasian wild boar in an effort to diversify livestock production.