photo : Pierre Athanaze
This scandalous provision is far from being an act of "conservation" as hunters like to claim. This measure allows them to draw from the most beautiful male deer yearlings in order to decorate their chimney breasts with their morbid trophies. As deer lose their antlers in early fall, hunters are more likely to "harvest" their "beautiful" trophies by slaughtering deer in the summer during the breeding season!
The summer shootings are decreed by the prefects at the request of the departmental hunting federations. Requests which are almost systematically followed by orders authorizing this ridiculous activity. So, why would the hunters feel bothered or ashamed? And why slaughter only deer? Hunting federations and managers of hunting areas have asked the public authorities to allow the hunting of fallow deer. More recently we have seen the demand to hunt wild boars and of course, they won.
During
the summer season, bucks and fallow deer are hunted as they approach
or from lookouts (watchtowers). Wild boars are hunted by a driving
method. Every hunter who pursues this disgraceful activity is also
allowed to shoot foxes! This without any restrictions! Even after the
buck or fallow deer quota is reached, summer shooters will have the
right to continue hunting foxes, which is increasingly recognized as
assisting agricultural by the farmers themselves.
This
hunting period, which is added to the so-called general opening
period, allows hunters to hunt three and a half months longer! And
the holders of these hunting rights to earn even more money. One can
find at most organized private hunts offers of overnight
accommodation and hunts in various departments. Hunters, in need of
these bloodthirsty activities, can, with hard cash, quench their
deadly thirsts during these three and a half months of extended
season. This constitutes an additional financial windfall for those
who trade in death.
No, hunting is not, as some people try to make us believe, an act of "conservation" of the wild life, but purely a commercial activity. Please sign our petition to obtain a radical reform of hunting, and its ban during all weekends and school holidays! And meet with us on October 5th for the 2nd united march against hunting.
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