There is no doubt the boar can create a fair bit of damage and not just to the land. This country is too populated to enable the boar to establish safely nationwide but suits them well in the less built up areas.
We farm them as naturally as possible, they are magnificent animals and thankfully their meat is more and more in demand.

The Real Boar Company, Cotswolds,

Here in the Algarve and Alentejo, we eat boar in casseroles
as a normal ,preferable and natural meat choice, together
with rabbit,hare and wild bird game. We live like kings did,
and it is just normal food, and fabulous.

Geoffrey Swain, Almancil, Algarve

Lovely....
Can't wait for restaurants to serve this up.

What we bring back from Italy every year has to last as long as poss. Mind you the rels make a mighty tasty sausage which will be hard to beat.

Yuuumy lovely with pasta, and red wine of course. (montepulciano d'abruzzo) preferred.

MNKB, UK, UK

I think it is nice wild boar are back in the UK

They are a native species

Were we are in Shropshire we have have ostridge farms and deer farms locally, it is nice to pass by and see them from a distance.

Over in Wales 5 miles away they now have farms with wild European bison on the open fields, these are at Corwen in the Llangollen valley.

Wild Boar I like the idea,, they are a British Animal that should naturally be roaming our land

Nicholas Iles, Oswestry, Shropshire

Look what the realease of thousands of mink in our countryside led to!! Wrecking havoc agmost almost every living thing along our waterways,, the watervole will be gone and dusted in 5 years if we dont act,

These boar belong on the table,,, not in our countryside thanks.

Martin,,mc cornock, Cinderford, forest of dean

Adele / Paul...before you clamour for the wild boar to return, you should check out the mess they've made of several West Country woods. They literally decimate the ground cover, plants, young trees, nesting birds, the lot. And while deer etc. tend to jump fences, boar seem to delight in demolishing them. Most 'sport hunters' (...and I'm in that category) care passionately about the broader rural environment and we're really not convinced boar are such a great idea to have back.

Andrew, Tiverton, UK

Don't see anything wrong with eating them; very tasty and no different to hunting wild deer, rabbits, pigeons etc. I assume that the plan is neither to allow them to proliferate too much, but not to exterminate them either.

BTW - red kites have been very successful following re-introdiction. Just go for a cycle round the Oxfordshire countryside and you will see dozens of them.

Alasdair MacDonald, Oxford,

@Paul - because sadly sport hunters and farmers have far political power than conservationists do! That is also why, amongst other things, that foxes still have far less protection here than in North America and Europe, and why pine martens, wildcats, red kites, eagles and polecats are so rare, and why large scale badger culling is still a possibility. Anything that conflicts with livestock farming is doomed.

I for one would be thrilled to see wild boar back in my local woods, but as I'm a wildlife enthusiast, not a hunter, I'm not given any voice in the matter!

Adele Brand, North Downs,

why cant we allow boar to proliferate? we no longer have bears or wolves as a wild beast roaming these isles. it would be nice to have a native species to run free.

paul kelly, limehouse, england