peer reviewed ; The wild boar's diet is investigated in two forests of the Belgian Ardenne: the Nismes deciduous forest and the Transinne coniferous plantations. Two complementary approach are compared: analysis of faeces collected throughout the year and analysis of stomach contents during the hunting season only. The faeces analysis method allows to follow the diet seasonal variations but conceals the occurence of some feed and minimizes the ingestion of vertebrates and of artificial fodder. It results from both approaches that wild boars are opportunist and omnivorous with an obvious tendency to herbivory. The human influence, direct (artificial supply) or indirect (neighbouring cultivated open fields, forest and game management, enclosure, lot of disturbances), plays the leading part in determining wild boar's diet and its food search. As a whole, plant products from natural origin come in second place in its diet whereas other feed always remain occasional, with the exception of acorn and beech mast when superabouding. A few suggestions for reducing wild boar's damage to crop and forests close the paper