Populations of white-lipped peccaries, Tayassu pecari, have already been extirpated or drastically reduced in much of the Neotropics, but are still relatively abundant in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, the country's largest maize and soy producer. This article synthesises over a decade of experience both visiting farms which experienced crop damage and working with hunters, farmers and technicians who live in areas of conflict with T. pecari. These social ungulates feed within maize plantations bordering forest fragments during the entire cultivation cycle and farmers in Mato Grosso vociferously protest the severe economic losses they cause. To protect their crops from damage, farmers slaughter white-lipped peccaries using firearms, traps and mass poisoning. We also draw attention to the need to mitigate the damage caused in agricultural frontiers by this ecologically important species, such that it is not decimated as it has been in the Caatinga and Atlantic Forest biomes.

在许多新热带地区，白唇野猪（Tayassu pecari）的种群已经灭绝或大量减少，但在巴西最大的玉米和大豆生产国马托格罗索州仍然相对丰富。本文总结了十多年的经验，既访问了遭受作物破坏的农场，又与居住在与佩奇里冲突地区的猎人，农民和技术人员合作。在整个耕种周期中，这些有蹄类动物在与森林碎片接壤的玉米种植园内觅食，马托格罗索州的农民大声疾呼抗议它们造成的严重经济损失。为了保护农作物不受损害，农民使用枪支，陷阱和大量中毒杀害了嘴唇发白的野猪。我们还提请注意有必要减轻这种具有生态重要性的物种在农业边界上造成的破坏，以使它不会像在Caatinga和Atlantic Forest生物群落中那样遭到大量破坏。