One Voice is taking to the streets to call for a true plan to make hunting safe and for a radical reform
In February, One Voice will be raising awareness among the public in fifteen towns in France at the end of this hunting season.
On Saturday 11 February, One Voice activists will be raising public awareness in Compiègne, Nantes, Angers, and Troyes. On Sunday 12 February, the same will be happening in Montpellier, Rouen, and Gap. On the following Saturday, on 18 February, it will happen in Lille, Annecy, Aix-en-Provence, Nice, and Bayonne. In Nice, Olivier Arnaubex, lawyer at Barreau de Nice and singer-songwriter as part of the LFA (Looking For Animals) group, is committed to the animal cause and will share his compositions during our audience participation event. Finally, on Saturday 11 March, the towns of Lyon, Paris, and La Rochelle will finish the series at the end of the hunting season.
Photo of the action led in Compiègne on the morning of Saturday 22 February 2023
Hunting in France: an exception as the worst among its neighbours
Penned hunting, gun or bow hunting, badger or fox digging, trapping, hunting with hounds… in the 21st century, all of these practices still exist! Hunting in France: there are between 6,000 and 8,000 tonnes of lead in the wild, 20 million animals coming from breeding farms to be released and slaughtered, 45 million animals slaughtered each year, and 90 species of animals killed each year! France is, at any rate, the country that hunts the most types of species.
One Voice has opposed it for years and tries to make changes to the mentalities in France by demonstrating the suffering of the animals, the absurdity of the practice, and the collateral damage that hunting brings about.
From a human perspective, the government plan falls short of societal expectations
With their plan to make hunting safer, the government is proposing measures that are far from the expectations of the French population who would like to benefit from the countryside and the great outdoors without risking their lives. One Voice is reporting on the dramatic under-sizing of government propositions in relation to the stakes. It will take a radical reform on hunting, not small measures that are once again insulting to grieving families and to biodiversity which is being wiped out before our eyes.
The lack of political desire to change anything is such a pity. The animal and human deaths accrued still do not hold up against the lobby; we wonder how it still manages to dictate its own laws when it represents such a small minority. Country people as well as city-dwellers are more than fed up!
For wild boars, foxes, badgers, does, roebuck, fallow deer, rabbits, and all birds in our woodlands and countryside, but also for measures worthy of this name for humans, thus guaranteeing the safety of everyone, we will be in 15 French towns during weekends in February and March 2023.
|
Town and date |
Precise Location |
Time |
|
|
5 |
Gap 12/02 |
Domaine de Charence |
2:30pm to 4:30pm |
|
6 |
Nice 18/02 |
Place Magenta |
11:00am to 1:00pm |
|
8 |
Troyes 11/02 |
71 Rue Emile Zola |
3:30pm to 5:00pm |
|
13 |
Aix-en-Provence 18/02 |
Allées de Provence |
10:30am to 12:00pm |
|
17 |
La Rochelle 11 Mars |
Place de l’hôtel de ville |
2:30pm to 5:00pm |
|
34 |
Montpellier 12/02 |
Place de la Comédie |
11:00am to 1:00pm |
|
44 |
Nantes 11/02 |
Pace à Royale |
3pm to 5pm |
|
49 |
Angers 11/02 |
Rue Lenepveu |
3:00pm to 4:30pm |
|
59 |
Lille 18/02 |
Place Richebé |
2:30pm to 4:00pm |
|
64 |
Bayonne 18/02 |
Carreau des Halles |
2:30pm to 5:00pm |
|
69 |
Lyon 11 Mars |
Place St Jean |
2:30pm to 5:00pm |
|
74 |
Annecy 18/02 |
Mail centre |
2:30pm to 4:30pm |
|
75 |
Paris 11 Mars |
Place de l’Hôtel de ville |
2:00pm to 3:30pm |
|
76 |
Rouen 12/02 |
Place de la Cathédrale |
2:30pm to 4:00pm |
|
80 |
Compiègne 11/02 |
Place de l’hôtel de ville |
8:00am to 12:00pm |
Translated from the French by Joely Justice