Let’s stop the ibex in Bargy from being massacred! Killing shots have been authorised in Haute-Savoie since Spring

However, in the 2022-2030 period, this latest decree was announced on 17 March and involves up to 170 unbranded ibex, to which the branded animals are added, with the young females being targeted as a priority with the aim of supposedly establishing a healthy group. In other words, they are welcoming a shameful massacre.

Under the pretext of fighting against brucellosis and under pressure from local reblochon producers, the Haute-Savoie Prefecture has signed a document that allows, until 2030, twenty ibex to be killed each year, whether they are infected or not, to then be analysed post-mortem. All of this to the disappointment of the 84% who are against this decree proposal... Massacring Alpine Ibex (Capra ibex) that are in good health is completely grotesque when the species is protected on an international level and while several hundreds of individuals live in the Bargy mountains.

Legal actions repeated year after year!

How many legal actions will be necessary to make it clear that the survival of Bargy’s ibex is inherent to that of the ecosystems? Especially as it has been shown that nine ibex in ten are not diseased... We must immediately put a stop to this proposed massacre!

It is not the first time that we are attacking decrees to defend Bargy’s ibex. We have increased our actions since the first case in 2012, then in 2018 as well as in 2019 to save these majestic mountain inhabitants.

An interim suspension and an annulment appeal filed with our partners

We are reiterating our process, this time shared with Animal Cross, ASPAS, AVES, FNE Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, FNE Haute-Savoie, and the LPO nationale, hoping to be heard.

The absolute priority is to preserve all ibex in good health in the Bargy mountains, which is 96% of the current population. Shooting them when they are not unwell is as absurd as flying a helicopter dozens of times above birds’ nests which are becoming rare and are extremely vulnerable. Protected birds of prey are in serious danger with these irresponsible practices. Humans purposefully too often put their selfish interests before those of animals and nature, which are necessary for their own survival.

In this critical situation, the urgent applications judge has set the hearing for 11 May. While waiting for it, our partner FNE Haute-Savoie has launched a petition that we invite you to sign.

Translated from the French by Joely Justice