A study in Biological Conservation reveals that culling "pest" species in France costs €123 million annually, which is 8 times the cost of the actual damage they cause. Researchers found that mass killing of foxes and birds is financially inefficient and

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Every year in France, thousands of small animals are slaughtered, legally, in the name of the fight against "harmful species", especially for crops, but without proof of scientific efficiency so far. An unpublished study of the National Museum of Natural History, published...