6.0 wild boar have been donated to aid a regeneration project by conservation charity, Trees for Life, on its Dundreggan Estate in Glen Moriston, Inverness-shire. The boars will help reduce bracken in an area of ancient birchwood on the estate, helping the growth of native trees – including Scots pine, rowan, aspen, juniper among others – as well as woodland flowers. BBC News - Six wild boar to aid the regeneration of ancient forest
Interesting example of ecosystem restoration and species conservation. Is this example to be followed up ... with breeding wild boar in Scotland (i.o.w. bringing in females)???
for now its males only and they are being held in a large enclosure. Presumably that is to safeguard the possibility of escaped animals breeding in the wild. However, it could be a 'softly softly' approach and further down the line the policy may change perhaps?
Like the feral groups in Kent/Sussex and Forest of Dean, I believe that there are already feral boar roaming in Scotland.
They used to be... they died out(exterminated) several hundred years ago. There is some controversy about what to do with these feral herds that have become established- because they are/were a native species there are some official differences about whether they should encouraged, exterminated, or monitored/kept at the present small population levels. There is a website about this; try 'Wild Boar in Britain'.
