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In modern times Britain has never needed a wild boar policy, as the animals were hunted to extinction by the early 1600s. (Most, if not all, of the English records of boar may be of animals brought over from the continent by noblemen for hunting).

But after a series of escapes from boar farms, starting in the 1980s, the numbers of the animals living wild and breeding successfully in the Kent/Sussex border, Dorset and Herefordshire have now reached a point where the need for an official policy has become apparent.