The Boars are back !!

[thanmuwa]

From my experience, once they have established themselves,they will be impossible to get rid of, even if we wanted to

I agree that once introduced (which I too am in favour of), they are likely to be tenacious. Which leads me to wonder how on earth our allegedly more primitive ancestors managed to destroy whole populations of indigenous species? Scotland used to have the European Elk, wolf, brown bear, wild boar, beaver and lynx, birds of prey like the sea eagle and red kite and so on. Most of these were made extinct before guns even existed. I realise that landscape change was the main driver but even so it is an impressive feat to make so much extinct when we with our better technology and an even greater paucity of natural habitat can't even control grey squirrels!