{"id":304229,"date":"2025-12-08T01:53:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T01:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/304229\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T01:53:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T01:53:20","slug":"boar-spotted-near-east-meon-as-sightings-continue-in-petersfield-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/304229\/","title":{"rendered":"Boar spotted near East Meon as sightings continue in Petersfield area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Further wild boar sightings have been reported around The Hangers and Petersfield area after incidents on a nearby road prompted a police warning.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists should remain \u201cmindful\u201d of driving on Stoner Hill Road following multiple reports of at least two boars rummaging and fighting on the carriageway over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Social media has been awash with pictures and video footage of the creatures on the \u201cLittle Switzerland\u201d stretch of the road with the first sightings being reported at the end of last week.<\/p>\n<p>A further sighting was reported this morning as a \u201chuge black wild board with serious tusks\u201d was filmed wandering around farmland between East Meon and Ramsdean.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PP-Wild-Boars-Stoner-Hill-PIC1.jpg\" alt=\"Wild Boars Stoner Hill\" class=\"ArticleImagestyled__StyledImage-sc-13kuil7-0 kfMcOV\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Traffic was stow along Stoner Hill Road, between Steep and Froxfield, amid reports of at least two wild boars fighting and rummaging in the area. (Christopher Mitchell)<\/p>\n<p>This morning\u2019s incident was around two miles away from Stoner Hill Road, suggesting the wooded slopes of The Hangers could be home to larger-than-suspected numbers.<\/p>\n<p>The sightings yesterday near Steep led to queues on Stoner Hill Road with East Hampshire Police urging caution to drivers.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson said: \u201cWe are aware that a wild boar has been sighted on Stoner Hill Road, Petersfield.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cIf you are driving around this area, please be mindful of this and drive carefully and at an appropriate speed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boar sightings are fairly frequent in certain wooded areas like The New Forest and Forest of Dean but much less so locally.<\/p>\n<p>However, there have been isolated sightings in woodlands around Adhurst, Steep, Liss and Hillbrow in recent years, so their numbers may be larger than thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Further wild boar sightings have been reported around The Hangers and Petersfield area after incidents on a nearby&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-304229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}