This man is an idiot.
He fails to address;
population spread and density is radically different from Europe with no vast tracts of untrodden land, who wants wolves and bears eating dogs and sheep in Hyde Park, Ben Lommond or Snowdonia,
boar are not native they are 'once native',
coppice is an industrial work not forest 'arrestment',
the French are increasing hunting pressure to redress loss of flora and fauna directly attributable to expanding boar population,
wildlife does not belong to everyone, a recent right-to-roam has everyone thinking they can stick their tuppence worth in, but land is still owned and wildlife still managed without state reward by the landowner,
and he holds the French up as only hunting to prevent damage, lie, they hunt because they have always done so, they enjoy it, and it is embraced by the community as something to be proud of and not whispered in hushed corners in case it offends anyone.
This journalist is one of the reasons that the British press is no longer considered to have any integrity when viewed by our peers in other countrys.