Six associations, including One Voice, are swinging into action to defend chamois
Persecuted by hunters, poached by elected officials, denounced for spurious reasons, chamois are in distress. Nature and animal protection associations, including One Voice, are rushing to their rescue. Together with our partners ASPAS, Focale pour le Sauvage, Humanimo, Pôle Grands Prédateurs and Vigie Jura, we are expressing our dissatisfaction to the public authorities. Joint letters, legal action… We are using all the means at our disposal to stop the persecution of these animals.
From the Doubs to the Alpes-Maritimes region, via the Territoire de Belfort, chamois are the victims of a huge disinformation campaign.
Indifferent politicians, or worse, chamois poachers
Chamois are peaceful animals, capable of self-regulation, that delight mountain walkers when they are lucky enough to spot them. However, to please hunters and farmers, prefects accuse them of being “aggressive” towards animals destined for slaughter or of “damaging” forests. How ironic! They are an integral part of the mountains, just like other high-altitude creatures, which are also being hunted down.
Sold out to hunting lobbies, prefects are destroying wildlife and their habitat (which is incidentally ours). Why would they be interested in the lives of these animals, or at least their role in the environment, while they can get gun owners on their side ?
Public decision-makers are so committed to destroying biodiversity that they sometimes poach chamois themselves.
It’s only a short step from letters to the courts to chamois!
The hatred of chamois knows no boundaries between departments: despite a drastically declining population, the Drôme region wanted to cull 1,000 in the spring of 2024, and the Doubs region almost 600 this winter.
The State remains decidedly blind and deaf to living in harmony with nature and the other inhabitants of the planet. And this is not the first time that the Doubs prefecture has been in the news…
After the peregrine falcons and the big ravens, we will not let it attack the chamois in this way. Following multiple letters co-written with our partners ASPAS, Focale pour le Sauvage, Humanimo, Pôle Grands Prédateurs and Vigie Jura, the executive continues to turn a deaf ear (or perhaps it has selective hearing: only the wishes of hunters are the frequencies it picks up).
You can read our joint letter by clicking here.
In alliance with ASPAS, we have taken legal action against the Doubs decree on hunting plans for chamois for 2024/2025.
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