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Article: 'Gun down all the Forest's wild boar'
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- Citizen Gloucestershire, The
- Article date:
- May 23, 2008
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Fears over public safety have sparked plans to cull wild boar in
the Forest of Dean.
With the population of the feral beasts continuing to rise there
has been an increase in reports of boar attacks.
This has prompted Forestry Commission bosses to put together an
action plan to cut down on boar numbers.
Trained marksmen will be called in to gun down young boar so that
it does not disrupt the animals' social structure.
Rob Guest, deputy surveyor for the Forest of Dean, said the cull
was needed to tackle the growing boar problem.
He said: "People have been threatened or attacked, we've had at
least three dogs torn apart by the boar.
"We've had a number of horses attacked and thrown riders, ...