Traditional hunting of larks: Victory! The State Council has urgently suspended the decrees

There was an urgency to act and the State Council, consistent with past decisions, sided with our arguments. Field larks are on the list of birds classified on the IUCN Red List. And as the European Union Court of Justice recalled, France has not respected the European ‘Birds’ Directive of 30 November 2009 because it has contravened two exonerating criteria. On one hand, the absence of alternative techniques for trapping birds in particular, on the other, the fact that this technique allows the capture only of individuals of this species, in very limited numbers and without harm. The Ministry failed to demonstrate that the nets and cages were the only existing methods, that they only capture larks, or that they do not capture other bird species without killing any in the process...

The urgent applications judge at the State Council ruled that a “serious doubt” existed on the legality of the 2022 decrees challenged by One Voice and the LPO, and ordered them to be suspended immediately, from the day after the hearing.

When will the Ministry of Ecology stop delivering birds, whose species is disappearing through our own faults, to hunters, all while daring to talk about conservation and daring to say that they are worried about biodiversity? When will those who govern us respect the highest decisions of the administrative legal courts in France? After the cancellations of the 2018 to 2020 decrees and the suspension of the 2021 and 2022 ones, we hope that this time the Ministry of Ecology will give into it.

The hearing regarding the cancellation of the suspended decrees of 2021 is set for Monday 24 October; we will be there for the birds.

Translated from the French by Joely Justice

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Je m’oppose à un massacre aveugle (sans distinction de cible) et cruel. La tradition n’est évoquée que lorsqu’elle arrange (quelques-uns)

BRAVO ET MERCI à vous, mais pourquoi toujours que des "mesures suspendues" et non pas interdites définitivement ? Et ce ministère de l'écologie devrait avoir honte de ne jamais ou très rarement agir en faveur des animaux. Il est à espérer qu'à force de combats et de luttes constantes, les animaux trouveront tous enfin la paix et la tranquillité dans leurs espaces naturels.