GENEVA http://www.vapormaxplusforsale.com/ , Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- Tourists find marmots cute, but some authorities want to shoot the furry rodents which they say are plaguing Switzerland's famed Matterhorn region, Swiss Radio SRF reported Thursday.
Visitors to the Matterhorn region love the animals and their warning whistles. In Zermatt, there is even a marmot trail, and kiosks sells postcards featuring the podgy critters.
But as popular as these rodents may be in photo albums, local residents are finding they are becoming a menace.
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Farmers in Zermatt are particularly hard hit by the influx of marmots. Shepherd and organic farmer Paul Julen can no longer use one of his fields because of all the marmot holes.
"The risk of accidents is very high when there are so many marmot holes in a meadow," he told SRF, noting that he almost lost two newborn lambs that had fallen into a marmot burrow.
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"The latest reports showed that some 50 people were killed and more than 87 others wounded in the car bomb and gunmen attacks in Fadak area," Jasim al-Khaledi, head of the provincial health department said.
The attacks occurred in the afternoon when unidentified gunmen attacked a restaurant at Fadak area in west of the city of Nasriyah, some 375 km south of Baghdad, while a car bomb detonated at a security checkpoint near the attacked restaurant, according to a provincial security source.
Earlier the source put the dead toll at seven Cheap Nike Vapormax Plus For Sale , including three Iranians, and said 20 others were wounded by the two attacks.
The attacks came as the Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi paid a visit to the province and met with the provincial government and some tribal leaders.
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Athletes from China's synchronised swimming Olympic team practice a routine in their training base in Sao Paulo's famous Esporte Clube Pinheiros on July 30. Photo: Xinhua
Athletes from China's Olympic delegation have been making themselves at home at their training base in Sao Paulo's famous Esporte Clube Pinheiros, where they have been making the final preparations from their events in the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games.
According to Chinese Olympic officials, a total of 17 teams from China will use the club from July 22 to August 15 to train Nike Vapormax Plus Shoes For Sale , acclimatize and recover from jet lag. The Olympic Games will last until August 21.
People's Daily journalists visited the training base ahead of the start of the games to report on how Chinese athletes are preparing for the biggest competition in the world.
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Esporte Clube Pinheiros was chosen as the training base for Chinese athletes because the well-equipped club has a good environment which will allow the sportspeople to train effectively and stay safe, said Sun Yuanfu, Deputy Chef de Mission of the Pre-Games Training Camp of the Chinese delegation.
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China will send a total of 416 athletes, including 35 Olympic champions, to the Rio games. This is the largest Olympic delegation China has ever sent overseas, according to the Xinhua News Agency.
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Sun said on July 30 that three teams - table tennis, gymnastics and football - had already finished their pre-games training and moved to the Olympic Village. At that time about 300 athletes from 10 teams including swimming, badminton, boxing, and volleyball were still training in the club.
Two fencers were sparring when People's Daily reporters went to check out the fencing hall of the Esporte Clube Pinheiros on July 30.