Planned wild boar cull in Poland angers conservationists

MikoAaj Golachowski describes plan as 'evil' and warns of environmental consequences

Conservationists have branded plans by the Polish government to cull almost the entire wild boar population of the country as "pointless, counterproductive and evil".

In a move to tackle an epidemic of African swine fever, the Polish government has ordered a series of hunts, beginning this weekend, with the aim of killing the vast majority of the country's population of around 200,000 wild boar.