Wild boar slaughtered in Cannes: wildlife and animals being managed with revolver shots
On 14 March 2023, a wild boar was slaughtered in cold blood on a beach in Cannes, even though alternative solutions exist.
On 14 March 2023, a video of a wild boar ‘euthanised’ in the town of Cannes was published on social networks. This wild boar was not euthanised but shot at point-blank range under the astounded gaze of passers-by. Taking refuge on a deserted beach, the frightened animal was not posing any imminent danger.
Wild boars, who almost disappeared in France in the 1960s, have been massively reintroduced, just like thousands of animals bred with the sole aim of serving as cannon fodder for hunters. Nowadays, they are accused of all evil and slaughtered even when alternative solutions exist. This wild boar could have been captured and released in the wild. One Voice stood ready to help the town to implement such an alternative.
This decision is revealing of the incompetence of the methods used by authorities. Rather than leaving ecosystems to self-regulate, killing animals is always favoured. Therefore, even though they are natural predators of wild boar, hundreds of wolves are killed every year in France.
A few days after Jumbo the hippopotamus, a prisoner of the Muller Circus, passed through Cannes, One Voice expected more from the authorities. At a time when numerous countries are developing initiatives to learn how to cohabit with wild animals again, France once again demonstrates its trouble in getting away from a mentality based on the systematic killing of animals.
Translated from the French by Joely Justice