WITH regard to the story on page 13 (Feb 26) it is all very well so-called experts pronouncing on what we should do about the wild boar.
Do they realise what damage they are doing?
I belong to a walking group which walks in the Forest quite often. It has been obvious for some time along the edges of the paths that the boar have passed that way, but a couple of weeks ago near the site of Trafalgar Mine a large patch of bluebells had been dug up. There were a few bulbs lying around so presumably they had eaten the rest.
We then came to Cannop Ponds picnic site which was absolutely ruined – about an acre of grass where families sit and play in the summer had been dug up.
It is quite clear that if these animals are not eliminated eventually there will be no bluebells and no open areas of grass left intact.
– M.L. Simmons, Chepstow.