The culling of the illegally released pigs has caused outcry with hundreds of people questioning why they could not be rescued.

Pigs that were illegally released in the Cairngorms are captured and culled - A gamekeeping organisation has condemned what it described as ‘guerilla rewilding’.

The wild boar have been seen in the same area where four lynx were spotted - and recaptured - after being dumped last month.

Feral pigs spotted on the loose in the Cairngorms National Park have been captured and humanely culled, Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) has said. The animals were seen near Uath Lochans, an area of woodland and small lochs near Kingussie,