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Dartmoor wild boar sightings prompt suspicions of guerrilla rewilding (www.theguardian.com)

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Sightings of wild boar on Dartmoor have raised suspicions a guerrilla rewilder has been releasing them – and prompted a debate over whether they should be allowed to remain.

Videos of a group of boar on the moors in Devon were posted online earlier this month, and a dog walker has recently complained of a close encounter with one of them, which frightened his pet.

Experts suspect the boar could have been illegally reintroduced, possibly by people who want to repopulate the moors with the once indigenous species. Boar used to roam Dartmoor but were later hunted to extinction in Britain by the 17th century.

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[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Guerilla rewilding suggests, as with the recent lynx releases, that someone has a load of these stashed somewhere and is driving them across the country to dump them. "Wild.boar?" "Ye, they were furious".

[–] MouldyCat@feddit.uk 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Police said their chief suspect is a big fat Gaul with blue & white striped trousers.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 4 points 10 months ago

As my Y chromosome is Gaulish, I feel I should take offense at this, but they do make for good eating.