Housewife-turned hunter sets sights on wasted boar meat

In Japan, it's a familiar scene on the evening news: a wild boar ventures out of the woods looking for food. It wreaks havoc on a countryside town, spurring local authorities to arm themselves with nets to catch the rogue animal.Boar populations in the country have grown rapidly over the past several decades partly due to a decline in the number of hunters, increasing the frequency of such encounters between man and beast.According to the Environment Ministry, the estimated number of wild boars in Japan roughly tripled from the early 1990s to some 900,000 in the year to March 2017 and 76 pe…READ FULL ARTICLE