Most of Europe has Boar trouble. The animal rights people and their allies the Greenies went on a crusade and had a lot of legislation passed limiting hunting in the last couple of decades (Europe wide). They also implemented bureaucratic stumbling blocks, such as increasing the qualifications to be issued a Hunting license.

The result is a typical example of unintended consequences. The balance between wildlife populations and available habitat has shifted. Agriculture has suffered and wildlife mankind conflicts have increased.

A side note, the bureaucrats have found themselves in a quandary. The revenues generated by hunters, fees, licensing and lease holdings has declined. Their answer was to increase the fees, across the board, to try and keep the revenues up. They are slowly but surely pricing themselves out do the market. Blue collar hunters (and young hunters) are getting really rare here, they have been legislated and priced out of the market.

You sometimes have to Wonder if the people who decide policy, in liberal movements or government, are even marginally competent. And even think past next week, much less years down the road. Shortsightedness, cause and effect and unintended consequences never seem to enter into their thinking processes. The term knee jerk liberal comes to mind.

Just a couple of weeks ago I saw a sounder in a village park, in the middle of a place called Forest Estates. I've never seen them there before (in the last forty years). The residents were all excited, mother nature right here among us. They never stopped to think one aggressive Hog could ruin their whole day.

County wide we have 1-2 Wild Boar attacks on humans (with injuries) a year. The tendency is increasing as the number of Boar increase, conflict is inevitable.

Imported Boar to Italy my rear end. The south side of the Alps has always been full of Boar. And Boar are travelers, twenty miles a night isn't unusual. Many of Italys neighbors have always had large Boar populations. If Boar were nearly extinct in Italy it was likely from over hunting and replacements could freely wander in from Slovenia.

Just a little info, so you know where bad policy making can lead too.

0.4% of the population here are active hunters, about 6% in the U.S.A.