Underground badger hunting with hounds: when prefectures stumble blindly

While the legal system has massively proven us right and suspended badger digging in numerous departments, a wind of panic is blowing among prefectures, who are getting lost in their own strategies to put obstacles in our way and stop us from saving badgers. This year, Ille-et-Vilaine stood out in particular...

Not one, not two, but three decrees!

The first act: on 1 June 2022, the Prefect authorised an additional period for underground hunting with hounds from 1 to 30 June 2023. The second act: on 5 January 2023, he signed a new decree, revoking the one of 1 June and authorising digging... from 1 to 30 June 2023. We are already having trouble keeping up! The third act: on 16 May 2023, the same again! A new decree revoked the one of 5 January 2023, and authorised underground hunting with hounds from 1 June 2023 to 14 September 2023.

In this labyrinth is hidden a clear strategy in reality: increasing attempts to unsettle us, by hoping that we would lose ourselves in these publications and repeated repeals. It could happen on a misunderstanding!

The joke is on them and the badgers are saved

But these strategies did not work: we attacked these decisions and on 6 June 2023, with AVES, we were victorious. No badger will be dug out in the department this summer.

We were surprised when we received, a few weeks later, a defence brief of several pages long, in which the Prefect defended an act tooth and nail... that he himself had revoked!

We immediately informed the Tribunal of this ludicrous situation. On 18 July, the judge could only note that we had already obtained complete satisfaction, and that the Prefecture was defending a decree that no longer existed...

A lesson that State representatives should learn: these strategies allowing hunters to kill badgers at any cost do not work and do nothing but reinforce our determination to give these animals – including their young – that are massacred in their thousands for the pleasure of a select few a voice.

To save yet more badgers from hunters’ pliers, spades, and guns, sign our petition for the abolition of underground hunting with hounds, and support us!

Translated from the French by Joely Justice

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Quel intérêt de faire souffrir ces petits blaireaux ! Pourquoi un tel acharnement !
Nous sommes bien loin de la pub sur la chasse qui nous fait croire que celle ci est faite avec respect et éthique ! A quand une pub de One Voice qui montre la réalité !

Arrêtez cette bestialité.
Je vis dans un pays frontalier (Suisse dans le canton de Genève exactement) où la chasse est interdite. Le canton s'en porte très bien avec de belles réserves, des forêts où tout un chacun peut évoluer sans risque de se trouver face à un panneau "chasse en court" ce qui stop net la randonnée comme cela m'est arrivé dernièrement !
On a le loisir et la chance également de croiser et voir des animaux (renards - Blaireaux - chamois - cerf ) en belle quantité ou à l'inverse de la France, cela devient de la science fiction...
Les animaux font partie intégrante de la vie sur terre. Pourquoi est-ce que l'homme n'arrive pas en en prendre conscience !
Alors la vénerie sous terre, excusez-moi mais ça dépasse l'entendement, le bon sens et l'intelligence.
Je trouve la bêtise humaine sans limite et la destruction par l'homme a atteint des sommets effarants et indescriptibles. Le gouvernement, qui comme pour le climat, ne voit pas plus loin que le bout de son nez ....

BRAVO, BRAVO, BRAVO pour votre vigilance et détermination à sauver nos petits amis contre ces manipulations intempestives de certains préfets. Tel est pris qui croyait prendre !!!