42 NGOs have written to EU ecology ministers demanding an end to “uncontrolled’ imports of frog legs. The overexploitation of frog populations for culinary purposes in many countries is now reducing many wetlands to silence.

And threatens the survival of many species highly prized for their “thighs” “France is, by far, the largest consumer country in Europe,” underline the signatories of this letter written at the initiative of the NGO Robin des Bois.