The seven wild boars that escaped from a Yukon farm earlier this year are all dead now,&nbsp;according to the Yukon&nbsp;government.

In an email to CBC&nbsp;on Tuesday, government spokesperson Rod Jacob said the last of the animals have&nbsp;been "terminated"&nbsp;—&nbsp;either by their owner or Yukon's Conservation Officer Services.

The animals, also known as Eurasian pigs, 

 from a farm west of Whitehorse​, in the Mendenhall area.

Weeks later,&nbsp;the Yukon government stepped up efforts to capture or&nbsp;kill the animals and threatened the farmer with penalties if the animals continued to run loose.

1 wild boar killed, 6 still at large in Yukon

'Approaching these animals — I wouldn’t recommend it,' says one wild boar researcher in Saskatchewan. 'If you see them out on the ground, I would definitely get back in the house and close the door, if it was me.'

Alberta is currently working on field trials to find the best way to capture wild boars. 

Wild boar

Seven wild boars escaped from a farm in the Mendenhall subdivision area, west of Whitehorse, last month. Since then, they've been spotted on peoples' properties and alongside the highway. The territorial government says one of the animals has now been killed, but the rest are still loose.

Wild boars Yukon

Wild boars on the lam in Yukon subdivision

'They’re true to their name — these animals are quite wild. They don’t respond well to human interaction,' said Jesse Walchuk, an agricultural officer with the Yukon government.

Tannis Thompson-Preete took this photo of a wild boar on the loose in Yukon, escaped from a local farm.

Escaped wild boar

Tannis Thompson-Preete managed to snap some pictures of the wild boar when she spotted them near the Alaska Highway earlier this month.

Some of the beasts were soon shot dead, but others had apparently gone to ground. Experts warned that the animals 

, and that the escapees could cause serious environmental damage — especially if they managed to reproduce.

The animals&nbsp;were all female, and the Yukon government warned other farmers in the area to keep their domestic pigs secure&nbsp;to prevent any cross-breeding.&nbsp;

On Tuesday, the government said the case of the escaped wild boars "reinforces the need for secure fencing when raising livestock."

The escaped wild boars, or Eurasian pigs, were sometimes seen on people's properties in the Mendenhall area, or near the Alaska Highway — but they proved hard to capture or kill.

All wild boars that escaped from Yukon farm now dead, says government

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