We have lots wild around here unfortunately this was a very large male getting into gardens and generally causing havoc if we could of caught it we would of moved it to a safe area.
My dad did some work for the Forestry Commission when they had to upgrade their abattoir machinery to cope with the additional weight of the boar they were having to cull. A big deer for them might weigh 90kgs but a big male boar can be up to 175kg. I've got a boar's tusk here that I got from them and it's 4" long and sharp as a knife at the tip. They're a lovely animal to have wild in the UK again but not to be underestimated.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Thanks @Fire I hate it when people just dump animals when they get too big for them to handle. Plenty of places they can be taken too. Several big cats down this way, all let out from private owners.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
It's a real shame that the big cat releases were all inappropriate animals. Can't anyone let some Lynx go near the Forest of Dean or Kielder? Bypass all this reintroduction politics.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
The camera footage my brother has, seems good evidence but they have never found any other visual evidence paw prints old carcases and no one has ever reported anything in the area. Yet there on two separate occasions a large cat has triggered the camera.
"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
Locals have released terrapins into an indoor pond in what used to be an animal house in our park. The animal house has had to be closed (leaking roof, no money for upkeep or animal care), but the terrapins remain - as they're an alien species, the council needs a licence costing money they haven't got in order to move them. Plus nobody is interested in providing a home for a large, hungry, aggressive and rather unlovely terrapin...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
The quagga mussel, which alarmingly was first discovered in the UK just two weeks ago, this pest will smother and kill our native mussels, block water pipes and foul boat hulls.
Other invasive species include the demon shrimp, bloody red shrimp and the killer shrimp - dubbed the ‘pink peril’.
Each of these species kill and feed on native British shrimps.
"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
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My dad did some work for the Forestry Commission when they had to upgrade their abattoir machinery to cope with the additional weight of the boar they were having to cull. A big deer for them might weigh 90kgs but a big male boar can be up to 175kg. I've got a boar's tusk here that I got from them and it's 4" long and sharp as a knife at the tip. They're a lovely animal to have wild in the UK again but not to be underestimated.
Yet there on two separate occasions a large cat has triggered the camera.
The quagga mussel, which alarmingly was first discovered in the UK just two weeks ago, this pest will smother and kill our native mussels, block water pipes and foul boat hulls.
Other invasive species include the demon shrimp, bloody red shrimp and the killer shrimp - dubbed the ‘pink peril’.
Each of these species kill and feed on native British shrimps.