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One million wild boar killed last hunting season in France but numbers still high
Numbers continue to rise in several departments
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A69 due to open in south-west France and work starts on A412
Protests and delays have slowed the arrival of France’s two newest autoroutes
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French forests damaged by wildfires to be restored with lottery money
The initiative is expected to raise around €7.5million for two forests in southern France
Frog chorus may cost €150,000
Judges have ordered a couple to pay €30,000 in damages and fill in a pond after neighbours’ complaints about noisy frogs...
But doing so makes them liable to a €150,000 fine and two years’ jail for damaging protected species in the pond.
Michel and Annie Pecheras at Grignols, St Astier, Dordogne, have battled the case for six years and will now appeal to the Bordeaux court for a solution – while green campaigners want to take it to the European Court.
The pond has been on the property for more than 100 years and a petition to save it has drawn 138,000 names.
