My recent blogpost about the Boar connection with the Markwick family brought a lovely card from Belarus today! (From Maria, my friend via Postcrossing! Thanks, Maria!). She tells me that apparently there were 81,500 wild boars in Belarus a year ago, but now there are only 13,000 as they were said to have caused an epidemic of Swine flu in 2013 and hunters were issued cheap licences, resulting in the drastic reduction of the board population.
However, you can now see wild boars in the Beloroczskaya puscha, which is an area of protected woodland near Brest, not far from the Polish border.
Closer to home, we've recently heard about the wild boars in the Forest of Dean, which have been causing devastation to gardens in various local villages. But there is a certain fondness for these creatures in spite of their activities.
The attractive stamps on the postcard are from the series, Zoos in Belarus:
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