African swine fever creates a major risk to the Forest of Dean’s wild boar population according to experts. A local farmer says the wild boar population is already out of control. The head of the national pig association has said that the government’s wild boar action plan is hopelessly out of date and urges the forestry commission to step up the culling.
Wild boars are a popular part of the forest of dean but we must control them to limit the damage they do and to control diseases like swine fever.