One Voice’s national actions in March are calling for respect for wolves

Despite help from the State that compensates them, hunters and farmers pursue wolves even though their species is legally protected. Groups of armed poachers are even created to kill them. Lately, there is even an agricultural union that has called in two departments to massacre wolves. And each year, bodies are found. Last September, a hanged wolf was exhibited in front of a town hall... The Ministry for the Ecological Transition, under the ‘Wolf Plan’ framework, sets quotas for growing slaughterhouses year after year. Even this year, one in five wolves will be slaughtered, which is tragic for the individuals concerned, for the state of the packs in France, and ultimately constitutes a blow to the international regulations on biodiversity.

Unable to accept cohabiting with wild canines, farmers and hunters put pressure on the authorities to be able to massacre wolves. Why? They do not see them as predators of their own prey. And they only perceive nature and its inhabitants through the prism of the profit that they can make from it in the short term, instead of anticipating the future.

However, wolves are an integral part of our country’s biodiversity. They participate in its preservation as well as in that of our land and all have their place by our side. We must re-learn to tolerate these extremely intelligent, sentient and wise beings who deserve our respect. They have so much to teach us, namely on solidarity which is essential to them.

We refuse to have the rules dictated to our leaders by those few citizens who are hostile to the natural world. We demand that our leaders stop making regular breaches of international regulations for endangered species and definitively prohibit new culling.
Year after year, One Voice attacks the State Council on the decrees allowing the slaughter of more wolves. But even when the Association obtained the annulment of the decree and therefore the illegality of the shootings a posteriori, as the State Council decided again last year, wolves are dead and they only have themselves to blame. One Voice is fighting for them, for their existence, for the preservation of their habitat, for the restoration of their reputation. The petition launched by the Association has already gained over 69,000 signatures.

Translated from the French by Joely Justice