Call to ban marmot hunting in France as campaigners say they are ‘killed for fun’
- France: 16 events in the last 90 days
- Previous: earlier the same day · Reports from France reveal Barcola’s current stance on delayed Liverpool transfer
What happened
Protests and petitions planned amid growing concerns over impact of climate crisis on numbers of Alpine rodent Animal rights campaigners are gearing up for protests and petitions aimed at persuading the French government to ban the hunting of Alpine marmots. Open season on the rodents, members of the squirrel and groundhog family, begins in September, a few weeks before they go into a long winter hibernation. Contin…
Summary assembled by rule from the sources below