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Hunting: One Voice is at the Grenoble Administrative Tribunal on 18 October for mountain Galliformes

Hunting: One Voice is at the Grenoble Administrative Tribunal on 18 October for mountain Galliformes

Mis à jour le 27 December 2022

Decrees are raining down on all areas where mountain Galliformes live to authorise them being slaughtered by hunters, and this despite their poor state of conservation! For One Voice, this is unacceptable. We have attacked the Savoie Prefectural decree of 23 September 2022 authorising the hunting of black grouse, rock ptarmigans, and rock partridges. The emergency interim proceedings will take place at the Grenoble Administrative Tribunal next Tuesday 18 October. We hope to have this authorisation to hunt them suspended as quickly as possible.

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Updated 23 October 2022

The Administrative Tribunal has suspended the Savoie Prefect’s decree.

One Voice is attacking the decree on the basis that it authorises the slaughter of these three species of bird. The novelty in this case file, in relation to others on mountain Galliformes, is that we have chosen to fight not only for lagopus and black grouse, but also for rock partridges that are classified as ‘near-threatened’ and for which the figures from the Mountain Galliformes Observatory [Observatoire des Galliformes de Montagne] (in charge of the in situ inventories) are not good.

Each hunter in each area can kill a rock ptarmigan, while the fate of black grouse and rock partridges is left to the indiscretion of the individual hunting plans which can kill up to 414 individuals for black grouse and 190 for rock partridges.

Is this short-term vision that authorises hunting to continue normal? Is it normal that the quotas are established according to the data collected in the previous year? We do not calculate a provisional budget there: this is not theoretical, lives are at stake, and that is not all! Mountain Galliformes are disappearing bit by bit. If we allow more of them to be slaughtered in years where, finally, they can live and reproduce in peace, this is not how we will ensure that they survive when they are already having such trouble doing so without being in the line of fire. If we add to this that the hunting season is particularly long in this department, we could end up believing that there is a desire to make them disappear as quickly as possible.

Translated from the French by Joely Justice

Julia Mothé
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Bea | Tuesday 18 October 2022

Le ravage des chasseurs sur la beauté de la nature et de la faune m'attriste de plus en plus. C' est tellement beau à regarder. L'homme détruit la planète sans sans rendre compte, quelle tristesse!
Je fais pas mal de photos animalières et par leurs intelligence et leur comportement, ils nous apprennent beaucoup.
Je suis heureuse que des gens comme vous osent parler de la honte de ces massacres faits juste par loisir et par plaisir (ils n ont qu'à faire du Ball trapp).
L'image de notre pays est bien décevante!
Gandhi disait bien des merveilles, certains hommes devraient le lire plus souvent et prendre exemple.

trochu | Tuesday 18 October 2022

Monstrueux et scandaleux, tous ces soi-disant "humains" qui prennent plaisir et n'ont comme seule jouissance dans la vie que de tuer et tuer des oiseaux ou autres; En quoi dérangent ils ces magnifiques oiseaux ? Ils ont tous le droit de vivre librement comme les autres animaux, Je trouve plus que choquant et révoltant à l'extrême ce sentiment de "toute puissance, de supériorité absolue" de la part de chasseurs et autres personnalités qui les soutiennent, à se demander s'ils veulent "exterminer" tous les animaux de la planète vu toutes ces autorisations de chasse de partout qui semblent s'amplifier, honteux et immonde ! Ce gouvernement ne vaut rien de rien et fait partie de ceux qui se pensent "au-dessus et supérieurs" aux animaux.

Isabelle | Tuesday 18 October 2022

"On peut juger de la grandeur d'une nation par la façon dont les animaux y sont traités."
Gandhi
Si seulement on avait un gouvernement à la hauteur de Monsieur Gandhi. L'extermination et la maltraitance animale seraient inacceptables.... Prenez donc modèle sur ce grand homme. Cela en serait tout à votre honneur. Merci