With so many around, walkers regularly come across signs of them: hoofprints in mud grass grubbed up for edible roots a missing patch of bark on trees where they have rubbed to get rid of parasites. There are two million wild boar in France, a figure that has been increasing, partly as a result of milder winters. Although beavers are currently making a bid for the lead, wild boars have already shouldered their way past lynx and wolves. Wild boar are already half-way up the gangplank of the Ark of British rewilding. Why? Extract from work in progress The Implausible Rewilding of the Pyrenees Here in France, despite the human fatalities – almost exclusively hunting and road traffic accidents – despite their potential for virus transmission, despite the crop damage, they are considered no more dangerous than large dogs. So how dangerous are wild boar? In Britain there are a few thousand in France we have two million of them. With a wild boar population of 1635 in the Forest of Dean, another concentration in the Weald and sightings all over Great Britain, the debate is likely to continue. Yet, rewilding advocates claim that they are not dangerous. The National Trust has recently announced that it intends to kill the wild boars living on its Stourhead estate because of public safety fears. Young wild boar also known as humbugs © Laurence Terminet
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