Using an innovative trap known as the Pig Brig, the group of trappers was able to catch and kill a whole sounder of 41 pigs.

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

So why were the Cairngorms pigs killed? Wild boar were once native to Scotland but were hunted to extinction 700 years ago. Captive animals have been imported from continental Europe and kept ...

But wild animals sometimes enter public and urban areas, tempting reckless onlookers to get too close for comfort.  ...

Wild pigs are spreading rapidly across the Prairies, posing serious risks to agriculture, native ecosystems and livestock, ...

The number of wild boar in France has tripled over the past ... the fact that female boar give birth to between four and six piglets per litter, that grow to weigh as much as 35kg in nine months.

A spokesperson for the Cairngorms Crofters & Farmers Community said: “Within weeks of the illegal release of four lynx in woodlands near Kingussie, an estimated 20 feral pigs (wild boar ...