The beasts, which are the descendants of escapees – either deliberately or accidentally released – from wild boar farms, usually roam freely in the Great Glen, an area of lochs, hills ...

Wild boars that can grow to the size of a “small car” are now roaming within a mile of Inverness as their population in the ...

Saskatchewan is putting a moratorium on wild boar farms starting next year, in a bid to regulate the growing population of feral swine in the province. But a University of Saskatchewan expert says ...

"The whole thing behind this is to get something in place that deters anybody from wanting to start a wild boar farm in the M.D. of Willow Creek," she reported to the ASB at its Nov. 27 meeting.

It is the first known investigation at a UK boar farm that supplies semen to farms where pigs are slaughtered for meat, and some customer farms are organic or under the controversial RSPCA Assured ...

and said they include hybrids - a mix of boar and domestic pigs following interbreeding. The populations include animals that have escaped from farms or illegally released into the wild.

Since the 1970s, when enterprising farmers discovered a gap in the market for wild boar meat, these equally enterprising creatures have been escaping from farms. There have been sightings in ...