Rewilding

The picture shows a youngish pregnant boar, with maybe a white foot. A cross bred Wild Boar will look like the real thing, but with the odd white foot when the cross is 15/16ths. I doubt whether the pic has anything to do with the article though.
A Wild Boar sow with young will not tolerate any human, dog, cat, fox, rat within about a 500 yard circle, and is an extremely dangerous animal and will attack. I was always careful never to go in the field with a sow with litter, and was still careful with a 5 strand mains fence between us. A brick wall will not stop a full on attack. I never looked to see how many piglets were born.
They were lucky - really lucky. Usually the sow will bark, and the rest of the herd come running, ready to kill anything and everything.

But the owners of the pigs are stupid if they allow people and dogs anywhere near Wild Boar crosses. Would they let people walk if there were lions? Wild Boar will outrun and outkill a lion. Pinky and Perky they are not!
Our ancestors knew how dangerous Wild Boar are, shame we seem to have lost that fear.
 
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Alan Titchmarsh: Rewilding is a catastrophe for wildlife

Alan Titchmarsh has said that rewilded gardens are a catastrophe for wildlife and will reduce biodiversity. The TV presenter and gardening expert told a House of Lords investigation that the rewilding trend was “ill-considered”. He was giving evidence to a peers’ horticultural sector committee...
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Alan Titchmarsh says that the “fashionable trend” reduces biodiversity
George Willoughby
Monday July 17 2023, 1.45pm BST, The Times
Alan Titchmarsh has said that rewilded gardens are a catastrophe for wildlife and will reduce biodiversity.
The TV presenter and gardening expert told a House of Lords investigation that the rewilding trend was “ill-considered”.
He was giving evidence to a peers’ horticultural sector committee inquiry about the rewilding process, which involves restoring natural ecosystems and habitats until they can survive independently. The committee is considering the risks to Britain’s horticultural industry, which is worth billions of pounds.
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Titchmarsh told the peers: “With their greater plant diversity, domestic gardens offer sustenance and shelter to wildlife from March through to November.
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“Nine months of nourishment. A rewilded garden will offer nothing but straw and hay from August to March. A four-month flowering season is the norm.
“Should a current fashionable and ill-considered trend deplete our gardens of their botanical riches, then we have presided over a diminution in biodiversity of catastrophic proportions.
“Domestic gardens and well-planted parks offer an opportunity to all forms of wildlife — be they birds seeking nesting sites in hedges, berried plants that provide winter food or shrubs that offer shelter to mammals.”
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Titchmarsh acknowledged the importance of protecting the countryside but warned against people turning their gardens into wilderness.
“I find it worrying that misleading propaganda suggests only native plants are of any value to wildlife and the environment,” he said. “This is at odds with my experience as the custodian of a two-acre wildflower meadow and garden.”
Charlie Harpur has said: “The key to creating a mosaic of different habitats is disturbance”

Charlie Harpur has said: “The key to creating a mosaic of different habitats is disturbance”
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Charlie Harpur, head gardener at the Knepp estate, who has been described as a “pioneer” in rewilding, disagrees.
In June, Titchmarsh said that gardeners should not be “brainwashed” into trying wild gardening. In response, Harpur said: “The key to creating a mosaic of different habitats is disturbance. Gardens could provide the solution to reversing biodiversity loss and active gardening is therefore needed to create a dynamic landscape which provides different opportunities for wildlife.”
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Richard Bunting, spokesman for Rewilding Britain, said that rewilding offered hope for people worried about the climate crisis and he urged Titchmarsh to reconsider his stance.
“Simple actions such as letting wildflowers grow, easing up on the mowing, planting with nature in mind can make a big difference, and can work well alongside traditional gardening,” Bunting said.
“So unfortunately Alan is picking the wrong fight and we urge him to use his influence to instead tackle the damage caused by plastic grass, garden poisons, use of peat, over-mowing, and excessive hard-landscaping of gardens, and to support the push for 30 per cent of Britain’s nature to be restored by 2030.”
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Alicecow said:
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Boisterous, destructive and divisive: North America's wild boar population is on the rise

Hybridised feral pigs are an invasive pest in North America – but there could be benefits to their destructive power.
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Lyons' familiarity shines through in her descriptions. Adult males can reach up to 150cm (59in) from snout to tail; females are smaller though still muscular. They have fluffy and pointed ears, "like an elven teddy bear".

How very reassuring
:rolleyes:
 
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