HAVING phoned the Forestry Commission and voiced my concern about the inadequate response from their office to the need to both rigorously cull the wild boar in the Forest and to fence them in similar to the wild animals in places like Longleat House safari park and all the zoos of the country, I was told, via the switchboard that the "pro-Boar" in the Forest letters out number the opposite view five to one.

Effective political lobbying people, but high volume does not make your views right.

But as the letters are five to one for the wild boar and the lobby group want them left alone, well that is the cheapest option isn't it?

I have not noticed any government department or any organisation appearing to respond to 'supposed' public pressure in the past. Unless, of course, that was what they wanted to do anyway.

The wild boar that had been introduced to this country before the 10th century were extinct by 13th century.

Before the 13th century they were properly controlled and were hunted in unpopulated royal hunting areas like the Royal Forest of Dean.

In the Domesday Book it names a total of 13,418 places many of which were small hamlets.

The population between that time and the century of the industrial revolution in this country was a fraction of the population we have now.

In 2011, 25 million households were surveyed. Multiply that figure by three and it suggests that we could be on the way to 75 million population in this small country.

Saskatchewan, one of the largest and least populated states in Canada, has decided to place a moratorium on wild boar farming and says escaped boars should be killed.

Now with all those wild wastelands, what do they know that the Forestry Commission does not?

The wild boar were NOT officially reinstated in this area, they were escapees during the 1990s and should have been dealt with properly at that time.

We are a small and highly populated country, and even my small town has at least 8,000 population and rising.

The wild boar are decimating the verges and gardens instead of staying in the depths of the Forest.

During the breeding and rearing season they are dominating the Forest, and are willing to attack. I know that is a normal response from some wild animals.

It is just that this is not a suitable area for aggressive wild animals. Their natural predators are tigers for goodness sake.

No government department or organisation is willing to tolerate thuggish behaviour from alien fish and plant and other animal species in this country; alien crayfish and Japanese knotweed and even wild mink are exterminated wherever they are found.

Why are we pandering to these wild boar and their misguided fans?

– Forest resident.