No'ooo did'nt write that so read it again,just local populations in certain areas like around me,youre lucky to see 1 rabbit whilst out lamping on the sporting country estate i work on and its not from over shooting etc.
And the RELEVENCE is,coney is'nt exactly extinct in France ,just like here were sometimes local populations almost vanish, and in france they are repopulated from stock bred on game farms.
Just like on a sporting estate i worked on this summer in Languedoc,they spent the equivelent of a few thousand £'s on restocking rabbits bred from a commercial game farm.