In Hérault, the town of Billargues took a radical decision. To combat the proliferation of rabbits, the mayor decided to display the stew recipe on sixty billboards.
The idea: to encourage its citizens to hunt and eat rabbit but also and above all to alert people to this phenomenon. In March 2023, the prefect, who estimated that “the damage caused by the wild rabbit (had) reached an exceptional level”, had classified the animal as a “nuisance species”