The boar were killed in a "battue" in which beaters drove the game towards the 82 hunters last Wednesday in the eastern Ardennes region. Local officials said the hunters were within their rights as they had still not attained their quotas for the season of some 300 animals. But a participant in the hunt described the scene in a report in the local Ardennais newspaper, denouncing the extent of the killings as a true "carnage" that had left him shaken. He told AFP that the "exceptional" number of individuals killed was "intolerable". "I am overcome by this carnage, even if there is a need to regulate (numbers)," Claude Maireaux, head of a local nature protection group told AFP.

Source: The Local December 02, 2019 17:15 UTC