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  • Wild boar release in Maesteg captured on CCTV

    CCTV footage shows how two "sophisticated" thieves freed more than 40 wild boar from a farm in Bridgend county.

    • Published
      14 August 2015
    • Site
      News
    • Section
      Wales
  • Trio deny releasing wild boars at Maesteg

    Two men and a woman have denied illegally freeing wild boars after over 40 were released from a farm during a burglary in south Wales.

    • Published
      6 February 2015
    • Site
      News
    • Section
      South East Wales
  • Five charged over Maesteg burglary wild boar release

    Five people are charged after wild boars were released during a burglary at a farm in Bridgend county.

    • Published
      25 September 2014
    • Site
      News
    • Section
      South East Wales
  • Hunt on for 21 wild boar released in Maesteg burglary

    Police are on the trail of 21 wild boar which were set free during a burglary in Bridgend county at the weekend.

    • Published
      28 April 2014
    • Site
      News
    • Section
      Wales
  • Boar released to battle bracken

    Half a dozen wild boar are being released from the Highland Wildlife Park into a forest in an effort to help control the undergrowth.

    • Published
      26 November 2009
    • Site
      News
    • Section
  • Wild boar released into woodland

    Wild boar are released into a Highlands forest in a bid to aid the regeneration of ancient Caledonian woodland.

    • Published
      26 November 2009
    • Site
      News
    • Section
      Highlands and Islands
  • Fears over wild boar release

    Farmers have voiced their fears that animal rights campaigners have released wild boar into parts of the Gloucestershire countryside.

    • Published
      3 June 2008
    • Site
      News
    • Section
  • Special Branch probe boar release

    Special Branch officers are called in to investigate the release of 140 wild boar from a Devon farm.

    • Published
      1 November 2007
    • Site
      News
    • Section
      Devon
  • Released wild boar seen near city

    Wild boar thought to have been from a sounder released in north Devon are spotted a few miles from Plymouth.

    • Published
      16 November 2006
    • Site
      News
    • Section
      Devon
  • Forest of Dean: People learning to live alongside boars

    Forest of Dean boar were hunted to extinction 700 years ago, but were reintroduced in the 1990s.

    • Published
      10 February
    • Site
      News
    • Section
      Gloucestershire