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Article: If you go down to the woods, beware wild boar with young; Walkers are warned to keep their distance.(News)
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- Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- March 25, 2008
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Byline: Sally Williams
WILD boar have returned to the countryside in such large numbers that the Government has launched an action plan to prevent them harming the public.
The normally secretive animals that once roamed freely around the forests of Wales, have been spotted in Monmouthshire and Powys, the Forest of Dean on the border between Wales and England, many parts of England and in Scotland.
The population in Gloucestershire's Forest of Dean alone is thought tobearound100, but there are further groups on the Kent/ Sussex border, in west ...