The culling of the illegally released pigs has caused outcry with hundreds of people questioning why they could not be ...

A group of wild boar that were illegally released in the Cairngorms have been captured and culled. The feral animals were ...

Crofters have sent out a warning after a herd of maurading wild boars was spotted in the forests and glens near their homes.

Sightings of the animals, once indigenous until hunted to extinction, have been reported on Dartmoor for more than a decade ...

A sounder of wild boar appear to have been released at a site not far from where lynx were illegally dumped earlier this year ...

The boars are described as being 'relatively domesticated'. Efforts are being made to trap a group of wild boars seen roaming ...

Any sightings should be reported to Highland Police.

Wild boar were once native to Scotland but died out after overhunting and habitat destruction (Picture: Getty) Rangers are ...

A herd of wild boar are believed to have been illegally ... The latest discovery was made when a local walker came across the group of feral pigs near Kingussie in the Cairngorms National Park ...

The wild boar have been seen in the same area where four lynx were spotted - and recaptured - after being dumped last month.

Feral pigs spotted on the loose in the Cairngorms National Park have been captured and humanely culled, Forestry and Land ...