{"id":13158,"date":"2024-10-03T17:16:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T17:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wild-boar-spotted-outside-forest-of-dean-pub\/"},"modified":"2024-10-03T17:16:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T17:16:34","slug":"wild-boar-spotted-outside-forest-of-dean-pub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wild-boar-spotted-outside-forest-of-dean-pub\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild boar spotted outside Forest of Dean pub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A group of wild boar have been spotted wandering past a pub. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The footage was captured outside the Golden Lion in Cinderford, Gloucestershire, on 2 October.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Boar were hunted to extinction 700 years ago, but became established again in the Forest of Dean in the 1990s.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Forestry Commission wildlife rangers monitor numbers in the Forest of Dean each spring and carry out culls, if necessary, to keep the target population to about 400.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The boars have been known to go hunting for food in the local neighbourhoods when foraging becomes harder in the nearby forest.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cm24e0v4g02o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of wild boar have been spotted wandering past a pub. The footage was captured outside the Golden Lion in Cinderford, Gloucestershire, on 2 October. Boar were hunted to extinction 700 years ago, but became established again in the Forest of Dean in the 1990s. Forestry Commission wildlife rangers monitor numbers in the Forest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[5832,5833,1041,5347,1480,1337],"class_list":["post-13158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk","tag-boar","tag-dean","tag-forest","tag-pub","tag-spotted","tag-wild"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13160,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13158\/revisions\/13160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}