Read the coverage about the wild boar that have made their home in Scotland and you’d be forgiven for thinking the country had become overrun with mutant, dangerous, sheep-eating feral pigs. According to the Telegraph, they “eat anything” and “attack humans”, and local press in Scotland refers to them as a “farmland pest” that “fights […]
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Italy to let hunters loose against ‘invasion’ of wild boars
Italy’s ruling right-wing coalition is set to loosen hunting rules to deal with what the country’s farming lobby has called an “invasion” of wild boars. The boars are common in the countryside, but have recently also been spotted in central parts of Rome, attracted by the Eternal City’s chronically overflowing rubbish skips. In a change […]

Two Men Charged with Shooting Animals at a Safari Park in Quebec
Two Canadian men were charged with shooting animals at a safari park in Quebec and killing three wild boars and an elk. The men have been accused of breaking into the safari Parc Omega in Quebec and shooting three wild boars and an elk. The killings have shocked and devastated the park. Mathieu Godard and […]

British woman fatally shot while hunting boar in France, prosecutor says
A British woman has died after she was shot by her companion during a wild boar hunt in France on Sunday, in what a prosecutor described as a “dramatic accident”. The 67-year-old was wounded “above the heart” and taken to hospital in Saint-Brieuc, Brittany, where she died around midday, said the prosecutor, Nicolas Heitz. The […]

Spanish police guide bear back from city centre to mountains
Spanish police came to the aid of a brown bear whose apparent quest for acorns led him to pad the pre-dawn streets of a busy city in the north-western region of Castilla y León. The animal was spotted in the centre of Ponferrada in the early hours of Tuesday by a taxi-driver, who filmed its […]

Picnics banned in Rome in effort to combat wild boar incursions
Picnics have been banned and bins fenced off in a large swathe of northern Rome as health authorities move to contain the wild boar population after African swine fever was detected in a deceased animal. Feeding or approaching the animals has also been forbidden, while people who have walked through farmland or nature reserves in […]

‘It was on top of my head,’ Rome residents impose curfew after spate of wild boar attacks
Residents across several neighbourhoods in northern Rome will live under a nightly “curfew” after a spate of attacks by wild boar, which have tormented the capital for years. In the latest attack, a woman said a wild boar was on top of her head after she was trampled to the ground during an attack on […]

Three critically endangered Sumatran tigers found dead in traps on Indonesia’s Sumatra island
Authorities announced Monday that three critically endangered Sumatran tigers were found dead after being trapped in traps on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, the latest setback for a species whose numbers are estimated to be about 400. A female and a male tiger were discovered dead Sunday at a palm oil plantation in East Aceh district of […]