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- Animal rights campaigners protest and petition for a national ban on marmot hunting in France.
- Open season begins in September, with roughly 1,000 marmots shot annually.
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) scientists say climate-driven social instability lowers pup births, driving a steady population decline.
- National Hunters Federation counters that marmot numbers are rising and the species is not threatened.
