Large, messy and mysterious – crossing paths with a wild boar can conjure fear and joy in equal measure. In Groundbreakers, naturalist Chantal Lyons meets with conservationists and critics and moves to the Forest of Dean to reveal what it might take for us to coexist with this complex species.
Chantal Lyons is a naturalist, writer and science communicator. Having grown up in the tidy countryside of Kent, her encounters with the growing rewilding movement opened her eyes to the potential for restoring nature in Britain, and inspired her to study the relations between people and wild boar in the Forest of Dean. She currently lives in Cheltenham, never too far from the boar.