The International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species is a comprehensive database of over 120,000 species and is a powerful tool to evaluate the threat of invasive species to global biodiversity. Several problematic species have gained global recognition due to comprehensive threat assessments quantifying the threat these species pose to biodiversity using large datasets like the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. However, the global threat of wild pigs (Sus scrofa) to biodiversity is still poorly understood despite well-documented ecosystem level impacts. In this study, we utilized the IUCN Red List to quantify the impacts of this globally distributed species throughout its native and non-native range. Here we show that wild pigs threaten 672 taxa in 54 different countries across the globe. Most of these taxa are listed as critically endangered or endangered and 14 species have been driven to extinction as a direct result of impacts from wild pigs. Our results show that threats from wild pigs are pervasive across taxonomic groups and that island endemics and taxa throughout the non-native range of wild pigs are particularly vulnerable.

国际自然保护联盟 (IUCN) 濒危物种红色名录是一个包含 120,000 多个物种的综合数据库，是评估入侵物种对全球生物多样性威胁的有力工具。由于使用 IUCN 受威胁物种红色名录等大型数据集对这些物种对生物多样性构成的威胁进行了全面的威胁评估，因此一些有问题的物种已获得全球认可。然而，全球野猪（Sus scrofa) 对生物多样性的影响仍然知之甚少，尽管有充分记录的生态系统层面的影响。在这项研究中，我们利用 IUCN 红色名录来量化这种全球分布的物种在其本地和非本地范围内的影响。在这里，我们展示了野猪威胁着全球 54 个不同国家的 672 个分类群。这些分类群中的大多数被列为极度濒危或濒危物种，有 14 个物种因野猪的直接影响而濒临灭绝。我们的结果表明，来自野猪的威胁在整个分类群中普遍存在，并且整个非本地野猪范围内的岛屿地方性和分类群特别脆弱。