Rangers are battling to round up a large group of feral pigs thought to have been deliberately released in a national park. Around 20 of the boar have been spotted in woodlands in Cairngorms National Park in Scotland recently.

Animal experts have located and are working to trap a number of illegally released “feral” pigs in the Cairngorms. On Monday, the animals were released in the Uath Lochans area of the park, and the Cairngorms National Park Authority said they seemed to be “relatively domesticated”.

Park rangers are trying to capture feral pigs which may have been illegally released in the Cairngorms. The Cairngorms National Park Authority said the pigs were seen near the Uath Lochans area of the Highlands park,