Bouquetins du Bargy: Stop the killings!
One Voice leads a nonviolent fight to defend animal rights and respect all life forms. The organization operates independently and is thus free to speak and act freely.
An emergency! A consultation is open until April 28 to gather public opinion on the massacre of the ibex of Bargy. Let’s prevent the killing of these beautiful mountain dwellers!
In
a sensible world, when individuals are sick, they are treated or, if
it is impossible, their suffering is shortened. And in the case of a
contagion, we protect others through vaccination. In Haute-Savoie,
when an ibex is potentially carrying a zoonosis, it is killed. Even
if it is in perfect health. Even if, fragile, it is still protected
by the Berne Convention. Without any form of trial.
Eradication pure and simple
Since
2013, One Voice and its partners have been campaigning against the
repeated “harvesting” (meaning “slaughter”) of
ibexes from Bargy. Their wrong doing? Some carry brucellosis, a
zoonosis transmitted by domestic animals and naturally not present in
wild ungulates. Thus, while common sense should encourage breeders to
care for their infected sheep, cattle or goats, they are preying on
wild individuals who have had the misfortune to be too close to them
in the alpine pastures. The cheese producers have even held them
responsible for the contamination of their Reblochons, although
everything renders this hypothesis more than doubtful.
Make yourself heard!
Today,
while many healthy ibex have already died under a hail bullets, the
prevalence level has dropped significantly, the risk for farms is
considered almost zero, will we leave them alone?
No way! The Prefect of
Haute-Savoie plans a new order for 2019, which orders in particular
“the removal of ibex present in the sectors” Grand Bargy
“,” Petit Bargy “and” Jalouvre Peyre “.
Presented at the public consultation and up until April 28th, this
decree would allow the death of 94 other ibexes if it obtains a
majority of favourable opinions.
Let’s
mobilize to prevent these planned massacres, while alternatives
exist! Join your voices with ours without delay by responding to the
consultation:
- either
by mail: ddt-consultations-publiques@haute-savoie.gouv.fr
- or by post: Departmental Direction for the territories of Haute-Savoie,
Water and
Environment
Department – 15 rue Henry-Bordeaux 74998 Annecy Cedex 9
Let
us make sense to those for whom wildlife and nature must disappear to
make room for farmed animals to be slaughtered.
Advice:
- No
offensive messages
- No
overly generalized messages