Wild Rabbits Devastate French Farms

CrazyRedHead

4-21-2008 12:01 AM

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A plague of rabbits is devastating crops and community relations in France,
where lawsuits are flying as farmers, hunters and landowners blame each
other for failing to keep the population in check.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3785042.ece">
Amid mounting anger and destruction on a scale unknown for 30 years, cereal
farmers are being advised to sue neighbours who allow wild rabbits to
proliferate. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3785042.ece">
Under French law, landowners have a civil responsibility to prevent an “excess
number” of rabbits on their property</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3785042.ece">Public authorities are blamed for allowing rabbits to multiply
alongside rivers, roads and railways, where they have curtailed a
longstanding policy of regular culls.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3785042.ece">contemporary hunters were ignoring the rabbits that they
used to stew with red wine and <I>herbes de Provence. </I>“They prefer
bigger game these days,” he said. “We need to persuade them to be a bit more
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