V10 – Pg13
Now that is one big boar! Will out two heroines be able to take this thing down before it makes mincemeat of them?
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are there wild boar in England? or forests? I seem to remember that one of the main exports of the American colonies was timber.
Well, there certainly used to be. With the downfall of civilisation, I suspect they’d make a comeback.
According to the woodlandtrust.org.uk there are currently over 1,000 wonderful woods all over the UK. Wild boar did go extinct in Britain around the 13th century. However, according to http://www.britishwildboar.org.uk/index.htm?britain.htm that circa 1998 there were two populations of wild boar living free in Britain. The interesting fact is that these wild boar are the result of farmed wild boar escaping and reestablishing wild populations!
It’s amazing what happens when a species is reintroduced. The whole ecosystem is effected. For an interesting read check out this article on the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park. Spoiler Alert: it changes the course of rivers!
Thanks for reading!
Crap. Here’s the Yellowstone Link http://www.yellowstonepark.com/2011/06/wolf-reintroduction-changes-ecosystem/
Crap. Here’s the Yellowstone Link http://www.yellowstonepark.com/2011/06/wolf-reintroduction-changes-ecosystem/
Phew… Boars are not to be trifled with!
No, they’re not. I’ve been reading/watching about them. They can be mean SOBs.
We’re living with them. In Switzerland, you can now theoretically meet many things in the forest. Deer, foxes, badgers, lynx, wolf, bear. A lot of those I’ve got healthy respect of. But the one thing I’m actually afraid of running across unprepared is a boar.
Yeah, we have forests and wild boar here, though I’ve still not seen one except on a dinner plate (a boar, not a forest!). Being an island with a mild, damp climate Britain would be smothered with trees if we hadn’t spent a lot of effort into cutting them down to make things from or make room for other things like farms and towns.
What we don’t have is huge expanses of tree-filled wilderness – maybe a bit in Scotland – the forests that remain are heavily managed as nature reserves, timber sources, and outdoor leisure facilities. Wild boars have been a bit of an issue in some areas as they do have an impact on the ecosystem (though you could argue that the impact is putting it back how it should be!) and also agriculture (they don’t respect fences much, for a start). A lack of predators means that boar are now hunted as well as farmed, in order to keep numbers under control. But that is only the same as we do with deer.
I’m still hoping to see the return of wolves in the UK in my lifetime, extinct here for at least 300 years. Lynx and bears would be the dream. We already have a couple of projects going on with beavers which seem to be going okay (even UK farmers can’t claim they will eat sheep!).
Back to the comic – I wonder if both of these ladies aren’t related to people we’ve met before?
Trust me on this one. Predatory species coming back is not something everyone will welcome.
I’m Swiss and in the last decades I’ve seen the return of bearded vulture, lynx (by human intervention), wolf and lately bear (by natural migration). And there are ambivalent feelings about them. Also it does bring its unique set of problems (especially the latter two).
As for the people in the comic. I see a certain resemblance, yes.
We could well have well met one or both of these ladies before…
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