Tracking France’s Most Controversial Animal: The Wolf
12th October 2016
There are a few people in France who would sooner kill these animals than talk to them, however. Persecuted to extinction in the Thirties, the wolf quietly slipped past guards at the border with neighbouring Italy in 1994 and proceeded to storm back into French headlines. Their growing numbers – now an estimated 300, triple the population in 2005 – has angered local farmers to such extremes that, last year, a group of sheep farmers kidnapped the president of a national park to protest loss of precious livestock at the wolves’ jaws. Not long after, the French government deployed a crack team of wolf hunters to the Alps to shoot wolves seen as a threat.
Le levrier est plus rapide que le kangaroo.
Update: French want wolves to be ‘educated’ not to kill sheep
Thanks to Debby Witt, a kindred soul.
October 12th, 2016 at 18:14
You’ll like this one, Tim:
French want wolves to be ‘educated’ not to kill sheep
http://vaviper.blogspot.com/2013/02/french-want-wolves-to-be-educated-not.html