21.02.2017

The French government has ordered a cull of all 600,000 surviving ducks in the south-western Landes region, where 25 percent of France's foie gras is produced. Some 1.9 million ducks and geese have already been culled and a further 1.3 million have died in this year's outbreak of the H5N8 virus in France and Agriculture Minister Stéphane Le Foll announced Tuesday that the 600,000 surviving in the Landes will be slaughtered.
The Landes has been the worst-hit area, with 151 cases, while there were another 119 elsewhere in the south-west.
Millions of euros lost
France is the world's biggest producer of foie gras.