Animal rights campaigners in France are fighting to save a wild boar adopted as a piglet by a horse breeder but now ...

Keeping the boar, though, meant Ms Cappé risked a three-year jail sentence and a €150,000 (£127,000) fine. Her appeal to a ...

A wild boar adopted by a French horse breeder can remain with her owner, a court ruled on Thursday, after threats by ...

A French woman who has kept a wild boar as a pet since finding and domesticating the animal can keep it for now, a court has ordered, overruling local authorities who insisted the animal had to be ...

French horse breeder Elodie Cappe poses with "Rillette", a wild boar she rescued as a piglet in 2023 that is now at the ...

Elodie Cappe took in a female wild boar. Due to unfavourable laws, she faced imprisonment for keeping a non-domesticated ...

Brigitte Bardot added her voice to storm of protest sparked after authorities threatened to separate Rillette from owner ...

Wild boars are known for their love of plowing up meadows and pastures. For some people, they are not more than a tasty roast ...

A wild boar under threat of euthanasia by local authorities has become a celebrity in France, with support from animal rights campaigners and French actress Brigitte Bardot. The boar ...

A French court convened on Monday to rule on the fate of a wild boar adopted by a horse-breeder in 2023. The sow, known as ...

But one wild boar has captured the hearts of animal lovers both in France and abroad after local authorities in the Aube region of eastern France threatened to put her down. Horse-breeder Elodie ...