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A tragedy narrowly avoided in Montivilliers, at the Franco-Belge Circus. One Voice files a complaint

A tragedy narrowly avoided in Montivilliers, at the Franco-Belge Circus. One Voice files a complaint
06.08.2025
Seine-Maritime
A tragedy narrowly avoided in Montivilliers, at the Franco-Belge Circus. One Voice files a complaint
Exploitation for shows

At the beginning of August 2025, vacationers and residents of Montivilliers shopping in the commercial zone of this Normandy town were ordered to return immediately to their cars or enter the stores: three tigers were no longer in their cages, two of which were playing by the side of the road. Too busy fighting over a piece of plastic, they did not realize they were “free”. The third was wandering around, not far from the camels…

Irresponsibility as a way of life

A deadly danger awaited them all. The humans, of course, because these big cats, even though young and docile, are still wild animals and large predators. Although they do not know how to hunt, their instinct remains, and a “game” of chase, for example, could very quickly end badly.

If they had jumped over the barrier of barely 1.2 meters that separated them from the road, the situation could have ended tragically. With stretchers and ambulances for some, and guns and a knacker’s truck for others, as Mévy sadly experienced not so long ago in Paris.

Animal misery, a goldmine for circus owners

In the neighboring cage, a lioness paces back and forth in the presence of a male and appears to be expecting a litter, despite the legal ban on breeding in traveling circuses passed in 2021.

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Intimidation, a modus operandi…

Yet this is an everyday scene for the Franco-Belge Circus, which has established itself on site without any authorization and plans to remain in this commercial zone until August 17.

On social media, circus performers downplay the situation for which they are responsible and, as usual, message those who denounce it to threaten them.

Our complaint is currently being drafted

One Voice is once again filing a complaint against the trainer and owner of the Franco-Belge Circus, Serge Muller, and is requesting the urgent seizure of all the animals.

We sincerely thank the witnesses who alerted us to this situation for their reports, and we call on the general public to join us in this fight against the captivity, exploitation, transport, and training of animals, both wild and domestic.

Rare birth of wolf cubs on the Millevaches plateau: a living treasure threatened by poaching

Rare birth of wolf cubs on the Millevaches plateau: a living treasure threatened by poaching
04.08.2025
Corrèze
Rare birth of wolf cubs on the Millevaches plateau: a living treasure threatened by poaching
Wildlife

Last May, the wolf couple Milo and Mina gave birth to four cubs on the Millevaches plateau. Their genetic heritage is unique in France. This piece of news is an exceptional opportunity for nature. But this is no time for celebration: despite their protected status, the threat of poaching looms and decrees authorizing shooting have been issued even though the breeding season is underway. One Voice has written to the prefects of the Corrèze, Nouvelle Aquitaine, Rhône, and Auvergne-Rhône Alpes regions, as well as to the prefect responsible for the wolf plan, asking them to take urgent action and demanding concrete measures to protect livestock rather than killing these parents. The association is even offering financial assistance to implement effective protection measures.

generics.video.play There is no doubt that Mina, Milo, and their cubs are in imminent danger, between the lieutenants of louveterie and pests being on the lookout and the poachers emboldened by the prefecture’s decrees to kill wolves. Their very existence bothers those who want to take over nature and “clean it up,” as they repeat ad nauseam.

We will stop at nothing to defend these wonders and our ecosystems, which wolves take such good care of. Reaching out to our opponents is not a problem when it comes to preserving our fragile common good and working to find solutions that benefit everyone. Muriel Arnal President of One Voice

An exceptional and threatened litter

According to our partner Carduelis, from whom we have obtained this information, four cubs were born to this biologically remarkable couple. The prefecture has just confirmed this in the press. Their lineage is unparalleled in our country. This is an invaluable opportunity for wolves in particular and wild animals in general.

However, this promise of renewal is already compromised. The climate of tension and the shooting authorized by the prefecture through no less than 30 decrees are jeopardizing their existence. Tonight, more than 15 decrees authorizing shooting until December (here and there) have just been adopted, adding to the previous ones. We are currently analyzing their content with a view to taking action against them if need be.

That is why this piece of news, however good it may be, had not been announced until now. This is an absurd situation, given that the law requires them to be preserved.

Mobilization in the streets of Tulle and Brive-la-Gaillarde

Faced with this emergency, committed citizens have gathered on several occasions at our call. In Tulle on March 19 and on May 14, as well as in Brive-la-Gaillarde last Thursday, activists from One Voice and its partners sought to raise awareness among the population and remind them that the presence of wolves in the area is a natural right. Through these visible actions, we denounce the inaction of public authorities who systematically choose shooting over a genuine policy of coexistence that respects all living beings, as is practiced in other countries.

A clear request, concrete support

One Voice is sending a letter to the prefects concerned to put an end to the culling as soon as possible. At the same time, the association is calling for immediate action to enable farmers to protect their herds, considering the State is supposed to provide them assistance. This is the only way to prevent illegal acts against wolves.

The lives of Milo and Mina’s cubs are a national treasure. Their protection is a collective responsibility. One Voice calls for a suspension of all shooting and for the law to be enforced in favor of a species that, today more than ever, needs our commitment. In this fight, support us so that wolves can finally be treated with respect!

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Birds at risk: the French government backs down, we call for an urgent ban on hunting

Birds at risk: the French government backs down, we call for an urgent ban on hunting
29.07.2025
France
Birds at risk: the French government backs down, we call for an urgent ban on hunting
Wildlife

At a time when bird populations are plummeting in France and elsewhere, the government, ordered to act by the European Commission, is timidly considering restrictions on the killing of several endangered bird species. An initially more ambitious plan was abandoned under the weight of lobbies, whereas the situation today calls for a strong response: an immediate ban on the hunting of endangered migratory birds, and the programmed end of this so-called “leisure” practice. Let’s participate massively in the consultation on the draft ministerial decree to make the voice of birds heard!

Killing for entertainment, in the era of the sixth species mass extinction? No!

France holds a sad record: 65 species of birds can still be hunted there, generally without any justification other than the pleasure of killing. This is particularly true for mountain galliformes and skylarks, which are targeted every year and for which we take legal action. The arguments usually put forward to justify shooting fall flat when it comes to these animals, which, for the most part, cause neither damage nor disturbance.

Among the bird families reviewed by the Commission, all show signs of extreme fragility: intensive farming and pesticide spraying, habitat reduction… threats are everywhere. Emergency measures were therefore recommended, ranging from a moratorium (i.e. a temporary ban on culling) for common pochards, Eurasian wigeons, common quails, redwings, to a drastic reduction in quotas for pintails, shovelers and Eurasian green-winged teals. But, in the face of the pressure from gun-toting fanatics, the French government gave in yet again.

The government and hunters make little arrangements

As soon as the restrictions were announced, the hunting lobbies cried foul and boycotted the meetings. Minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher was quick to knock on their door to reassure them… and to back down. When it comes to satisfying their demands, the government is always there, as demonstrated by its determination to authorize cruel traditional trapping, made illegal by our repeated legal actions.

The moratorium initially envisaged for common pochards has been abandoned, and the ban on the shooting of turtle doves, renewed from year to year since 2021 following our legal action, would be lifted. All this is to be replaced by “adaptive management”: in short, shooting is still happening, but the pace is a little adjusted. Only common eiders, black-tailed godwits and Eurasian curlews would be subject to a new temporary ban, while they are close to extinction in France. As with capercaillies, they are waiting until it’s too late to act.

What the French want and what we demand: an end to slaughter

The opinion of the French is clear: the majority want an end to this deadly pastime and greater protection for wild animals (IPSOS/One Voice 2023 survey). It’s time for politicians to stop bowing down to a few occult but ultra-minority advisors and finally protect these sentient beings and biodiversity as a whole.

The procrastination must stop! Birds are in danger

From now on, take part in the consultation on the draft decree on the hunting of certain birds and the draft decree on “adaptive management”, to say no to the policy of small steps and demand a moratorium on all species in decline! And sign our petition to demand an immediate five-year suspension of hunting for 20 endangered bird species*, and, ultimately, an outright ban.

* Black-tailed godwits; Common snipes; Pintails; Eurasian wigeons; Shovelers; Common whimbrels; Common curlews; Common eiders; Common pochards; hazel grouses; rock ptarmigans; Pyrenean partridge; rock partridges; garganeys; Eurasian teals; black grouses; turtle doves; lapwings; skylarks.

Bullfight in Céret: new images of an unbelievable outburst of violence

Bullfight in Céret: new images of an unbelievable outburst of violence
28.07.2025
Bullfight in Céret: new images of an unbelievable outburst of violence
Exploitation for shows

Horses that collapse from the violence of the impact after being charged at. Dressed up men torturing disoriented bulls before slowly putting them to death by piercing them from all sides. Grotesquely posed bullfighters moving around in an absurd display of domination. This was the sad spectacle of a bullfight held in Céret (Pyrénées-Orientales) on July 13, of which we are publishing unprecedented images. Animal suffering must no longer be pushed into the background in favour of the dangerous and unbearable aestheticization of violence. Let’s ban bullfighting!

Tortured bulls, unspeakable brutality and ridiculous torturers

The tone is set from the very first seconds: the bulls, in panic, charge at the horses, striking them with terrifying power. The riders then thrust sharp spears into their necks. Blood spurts and flows, cries resound and the crowd cheers. Then come the banderillas, which remain planted in the flesh as the bulls desperately try to remove them.

Then comes the slow descent into death. Weakened by blood loss and repeated wounds, the animal goes around in circles, lost. His torturer, trained from an early age, as we have documented, approaches with absurd solemnity. Exulting to be standing up to him, he shouts, then thrusts his sword in. The bull resists, then trembles and slowly collapses, spitting out litres of blood before the eyes of an audience hypnotized by this barbarism from another time.

The scene culminates in agony: the final blow, a knife in the back of the neck, supposed to put an end to this scene of horror. But there are plenty of misses. The men repeat their movement several times, stabbing awkwardly, offering unbearable images of animals twitching on the ground, exhaling in a never-ending death rattle.

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Shield horses, also victims of these cowardly sacrifices

Chanquete, Narbonne, D’Artagnan are among the horses forced to take part in these macabre spectacles that day. Blindfolded, they don’t understand where the sharp blows come from, nor the assaults they suffer. Their riders do not spare them a single charge.

The violence is such that some regurgitate under the force of the blows, while others are suddenly thrown off their feet and fall. The riders immediately get back up in the saddle to continue their timed barbarity. Each killing ends with two more horses, whipped off to evacuate the bodies of the slaughtered bulls.

Bullfighting, a spectacle of torture that should be banned

Investigation after investigation, bullfighting is revealed for what it really is: a ritualized torture masquerading as tradition, authorized as an exemption in a few regions. This shameful exception has no place in a society that calls itself civilized.

A few days after Sébastien Castella’s killing of six bulls in Bayonne, which we and our partners denounced as a macabre celebration of the best executioner, it is more necessary than ever to demand the total and definitive abolition of this practice, as demanded by the overwhelming majority of French people. To join us in this fight, sign our petition!

Hunting safety: repeated accidents, when will real measures be taken?

Hunting safety: repeated accidents, when will real measures be taken?
24.07.2025
France
Hunting safety: repeated accidents, when will real measures be taken?
Wildlife

The report of the French Biodiversity Agency (OFB) is worrying. For the 2024-2025 season, an increase in the number of accidents and incidents has been observed compared with previous years. Hunting amounts to killing wild animals, and injuring -sometimes very seriously- walkers and their four-legged companions. A great deal of material damage has also been reported. One Voice is more committed than ever to banning this outdated and deadly activity.

A spectacular rise in accidents… and deaths

The 2024-2025 season was marked by a record number of deaths: in addition to the tens of millions of animals killed, eleven people lost their lives, more than twice as many as in previous years. Out of nearly one hundred accidents, sixteen involved non-hunters. And even in the home, there are risks. The most striking increase concerned pets: fifty of them were targeted, sometimes deliberately, as in the case of Aslan, a dog shot at point-blank range by a hunter, against whom we have lodged a complaint.

These armed men are privatizing nature and, as always, it’s the silent majority who have to adapt to their hobby. How many walkers cut short their outings in the countryside under pressure from a visible and influential minority? In 2023, we took the matter to court to get the government to assume its responsibilities. To date, the response has been woefully inadequate.

An anachronistic and archaic pastime that must end

Hunting in all its forms – whether with hounds, by digging up badgers, slaughtering foxes or killing birds using traditional methods – is neither legitimate nor justified. Yet it enjoys the unfailing support of the prefects, who do not hesitate to use unfair maneuvers by publishing their decrees after the operations have begun to prevent us from attacking them.

With just a few weeks to go before the opening of the 2025-26 season, we are calling for the mobilization of all citizens to demand the immediate adoption of radical measures, including:

a ban on hunting on Sundays, public holidays and during school vacations;
a strict ban on hunting under the influence of alcohol or drugs;
tighter control on hunters’ physical fitness;
reinforcing the hunting license examination (which is a complete farce);
a ban on the use of certain weapons and ammunition.

In the meantime, call on the authorities and sign up to demand radical measures in response to this worrying situation.

Animal experimentation: One Voice obtains new documents on the Mézilles dog farm

Animal experimentation: One Voice obtains new documents on the Mézilles dog farm
21.07.2025
Yonne
Animal experimentation: One Voice obtains new documents on the Mézilles dog farm
Animal testing

This is a new victory in One Voice’s fight for the dogs bred and used at the Breeding Centre for Biological Matter [Centre d’élevage des Souches (CEDS)] in Mézilles, Yonne. On June 5, the Dijon administrative court acceded to our requests, demanding that the CEDS provide us with its correspondence with the prefecture concerning applications for approval and inspections carried out between January 17, 2019 and February 9, 2022. These documents once again reveal the hell that the animals confined at Mézilles have to endure, and the repeated failings of the experimenters.

Among the documents we have received, there are no images, but information that is just as good.

Lives of suffering surrounded by opacity…

Through an individual follow-up sheet misplaced among some fifty other pages, we met a three-year-old Beagle female dog. Without a name, like all her companions in misery, she was exploited as a breeder. On August 14, 2019, she underwent a C-section to give birth to a litter of seven puppies. The same day, barely recovered from this ordeal, she was hysterectomized. What happened to her after she was removed from the list of valuable breeders? Has she been sent to the lab bench to be “recycled” as a punching-ball for drug tests? Or was she killed after her young were snatched from her…?

In this breeding facility, the fate of the pups is just as grim. On December 18, 2019, puppies less than five months old were crammed, two by two, into cramped crates for a long journey lasting several hours. Transported like simple parcels, with no regard for their fragility or well-being, in what condition were they to arrive? We can imagine their suffering, but we’ll never know everything: no details of their transport conditions, no trace of their destination. As if their lives had no value. As if these sentient beings were just products to be sold.

… and numerous shortcomings

In March 2019, the Yonne prefecture sent Marshall BioResources (MBR), the American giant that owns the farm, the inspection report on the control carried out earlier in the year. This is one of the documents to which we have had access… copiously redacted! Nevertheless, we learn that the storage of high-risk drugs was not adequately secured, and that the tutoring for new arrivals was not formalized. What other irregularities did the farm try to hide from us?

A few pages later, it does it again, completely erasing the number of individuals present on its premises and its maximum accommodation capacity. Could it be that it has done something wrong? Once again, the question is relevant.

Making animals profitable at all costs

This report also tells us that, during the Covid-19 epidemic, many orders for animals were cancelled or postponed, resulting in an increase in the number of dogs on site. These individuals that experimenters couldn’t invest in were, for the luckiest ones, offered for adoption. The others were assigned to breeding… before being put to death.

This is where the cynical cruelty of laboratories comes into its own: reducing animals to mere tools, sorting them shamelessly according to the profit to be made from them. Too old, too fat, or with abnormal biochemical results? To avoid them being counted as “surplus” animals, killed without ever having been “used”, they will undergo an experiment or reproduction before being discarded as if they were waste.

Not content with what it already inflicts on the dogs it keeps, MBR has obtained in 2022, for the Mézilles CEDS , an extension of the approval allowing it to carry out projects including surgical interventions. Join us in demanding the closure of this farm!

For Camille and the wolves of the Saône-et-Loire region, a new inter-association request

For Camille and the wolves of the Saône-et-Loire region, a new inter-association request
16.07.2025
Dijon
For Camille and the wolves of the Saône-et-Loire region, a new inter-association request
Wildlife

One Voice and its partners, ASPAS, FERUS, LPO Bourgogne Franche-Comté and Pôle Grands Prédateurs, are once again standing up for the wolves in the Saône-et-Loire region. We call for the immediate suspension of the umpteenth decree organizing the shooting of these animals. The hearing will take place on July 22 at 10 a.m. at the Dijon administrative court.

The Saône-et-Loire prefect signs shooting authorizations with a certain ease. Together with our partners, we are urgently challenging the latest one, dated May 15.

No cohabitation envisaged in the Saône-et-Loire region

In this region, the authorities’ only response is guns. Cohabitation? It’s not in their vocabulary.

In their eagerness to please the lobbies of hunting and a certain type of livestock farming, the authorities are handing out permits to kill a protected species at the drop of a hat. Every wolf unfortunate enough to pass through or settle in the Saône-et-Loire region ends up being killed. Camille, the most recent arrival, saw a torrent of hatred pour down on him. As for his predecessor, he was found dead in suspicious circumstances… We filed a complaint at the time.

We are taking legal action on behalf of the wolves in the Saône-et-Loire region

With regard to the decree we are contesting, the prefecture relies solely on the mention of a “significant risk of damage”, referring to 18 ovines attacked in neighboring villages, without providing any details on the protection devices used. This vagueness is unacceptable: the authorities cannot justify shooting when there is no guarantee that the flocks were effectively protected as required by law.

We reject this retrograde and destructive vision of wildlife. As well as being precious in their own right, wolves are essential to biodiversity and the proper functioning of ecosystems. Rather than trying to exterminate them, farmers should be encouraged and supported to set up electrified parks, and to monitor and guard their flocks.

It’s scandalous that some farmers are now lamenting the loss of ewes they refuse to protect, when they have no hesitation in sending thousands of them to slaughter without the slightest hint of compassion.

We’ve already achieved victories in the Alpes-Maritimes region last March. This time, we’ll be in the Dijon administrative court, as well as in front of it, on July 22 at 10 a.m. for Camille and all the other wolves in the Saône-et-Loire region. To show your support, sign the petition.

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Animal experimentation: the State seals the fate of thousands of monkeys in less than two months

Animal experimentation: the State seals the fate of thousands of monkeys in less than two months
16.07.2025
Animal experimentation: the State seals the fate of thousands of monkeys in less than two months
Animal testing

In less than two months, from March 27 to May 19, the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research approved six projects condemning 3,046 monkeys to endure all sorts of tests from virus inoculation to cranial implants. As always, there is no lack of stress and pain. We lift the veil on these cruel practices and their victims.

Harsh regulatory tests

To test the toxicology of drugs, no fewer than 1,120 marmosets and 1,120 long-tailed macaques will undergo experiments categorized as “moderate” and “severe”. What is merely a regulatory routine for the laboratories is a real ordeal for the animals. For months on end, they have to endure blood, urine and deep fluid samples… and even organ biopsies. And when it comes to sampling, this means restraint, sedation and several hours’ isolation in individual cages… These horribly invasive procedures generate intense stress, pain, lesions and infections, with risks of paralysis, lameness and arthritis. Not to mention the effects of the products tested, which can immediately cause neurological, immune, inflammatory or metabolic disorders in the animals. 2020 of the monkeys used in this way will be put to death after these procedures.

Hundreds of tormented individuals…

Not all toxicology tests are compulsory. For a non-regulatory study, 256 cynomolgus macaques and 46 rhesus macaques will be administered substances both orally and by injection every week, if not every day. They too will be immobilized for long periods, certainly in “restraint chairs”, including for infusions lasting up to four hours. And those who are not killed at the end of this ordeal will be kept alive only to relive similar torments…

Hundreds of other animals will be used:

400 macaques will be injected and sampled over a three-year period, and subjected to up to 10 vaccinations.
70 marmosets will be deliberately infected with the H1N1 influenza A virus, then subjected to repeated blood and nasal sampling. All will be put to death to prevent contamination of humans. The very people who made them sick, that is…
For tests on Alzheimer’s disease, scientists will operate on 13 long-tailed macaques to insert implants into their brains, which will remain there for weeks. This painful procedure will be supplemented by repeated injections of streptozotocin. And the misfortunes of these individuals don’t stop there, as they risk oedema, infections, inflammation and hallucinations… until they are slaughtered.

… and babies torn from their mothers

21 young rhesus monkeys will be “used” to study the consequences of early negative experiences on behavior. Half of them will be separated from their mothers at birth and raised without their social group. For a week, they will be deprived of their loved ones, disoriented, in a foreign environment, with, once again, restraint cages… An extremely stressful experience, since that’s the whole point of this “staging”. And their suffering will continue, since their return to their group will itself be a source of stress and potential injuries…

We will continue to shed light on what happens to the animals on the scientists’ cold benches. Sign to demand an end to these practices on primates!

World Horse Day: let’s live up to the bond that unites us

World Horse Day: let’s live up to the bond that unites us
11.07.2025
France
World Horse Day: let’s live up to the bond that unites us
Domestic animals

For World Horse Day, One Voice is reminding us of the many forms of suffering that we humans, our society and our laws impose on these animals, which have been some of our oldest companions since prehistoric times. Shows, circuses, racing, experimentation, tourism, slaughterhouses, hunting with hounds… we are definitely not living up to the faithful and extraordinary partners they have been and continue to be for the development of our species.

The United Nations General Assembly declared July 11 “World Horse Day”, calling for a celebration of their role in the evolution of the human species: “Few animals have contributed to the progress of humankind as profoundly – and unobtrusively – as the horse”. Unfortunately, this historical link is a one-way street. In France, horses and ponies are still subjected to countless forms of mistreatment, and their final destination is almost invariably the slaughterhouse. These practices, disguised as habits, trivialize the unacceptable.

“Man is the horse’s poorest conquest”

This quotation from Belgian linguist Jules Feller sums up the failings of our species towards equines.

Regarded as disposable, interchangeable objects, some are subjected to nothing but programmed suffering and death in animal experimentation, despite the fact that these opaque practices maintained by laboratories are condemned by public opinion. Others are mistreated, dragged from town to town without respect or dignity in shows or circuses. When they’re not tied up, far from meadows of fresh grass and access to water, they’re forced to wander around in painful postures. Others are forced to give up their lives to the applause and laughter of spectators at bullfights, where the violence is so omnipresent that their eyes are masked.

Whatever their health or weather conditions, humans exploit them to entertain tourists or feed gambling addiction, pushing them to the limit on the racecourse. Let’s not forget the individuals exploited in horse-riding events, hunting with hounds, or those who figure among the many collateral victims of hunters.

Abuse is everywhere, including in equestrian centers that cater for children and teenagers, claiming to offer “experiences rich in sharing and emotion”. Behind the pretty signs, how many cramped, dirty, dark stalls, beatings, loneliness and lack of care? Acts of abuse are sometimes committed in front of the youngsters.

Equidae are also used by certain humans as a means of venting their frustrations, and are victims of acts of cruelty by some, often following on from ill-treatment inflicted in the privacy of people’s homes. One Voice has been working to have this link between animal mistreatment and domestic violence recognized since 2007.

Denounce to better defend them

There is no exploitation of equines by humans that is not unworthy of their sensitivity, empathy and intelligence, and motivated by money.

Long gone are the days when tarpans roamed the plains and forests of Eastern Europe. Today, Przewalski’s horses, galloping across the Kazakh steppes, and mustangs, returned to the wild in the American West, remain the last free horses on our planet.

For more than twenty years, One Voice has been fighting for them, defending them while revealing the unacceptable practices to which they are subjected, and which are deeply rooted in our daily lives.

Denouncing these cruelties also means calling attention to the urgent need for a paradigm shift. If we continue to slaughter our faithful friends for non-essential, commercial food purposes, how can we collectively move towards a world without violence towards animals? How can a law that claims to “combat animal abuse and strengthen the bond between animals and humans” still consider that a stall life fulfills their essential needs as long as it allows them to “lie down”? Where is the consideration we owe them in the legality of their captivity and exploitation in traveling circuses, or their live disembowelment in bullfighting arenas?…

Let’s fight for them, for the recognition of their fundamental rights in our society.

Join us in demanding that horses and ponies no longer be classified as livestock, and that they be granted pet status so that they enjoy the same protection as dogs and cats.

Emmanuel Macron, the wolves’ gravedigger: another retrograde stance in Roquefort!

Emmanuel Macron, the wolves’ gravedigger: another retrograde stance in Roquefort!
04.07.2025
Emmanuel Macron, the wolves’ gravedigger: another retrograde stance in Roquefort!
Wildlife

Emmanuel Macron’s latest major project for animals? To “prevent the establishment of wolves where there is pastoralism”, even if it means “removing more wolves”. In order to promote, instead, the establishment of destructive agriculture, fuelled by pesticides, each more toxic than the last. We intend to call to mind a few truths about wolves, who do far more for the balance of our ecosystems than our public authorities and those who claim to “love” nature.

What a disgrace! President Macron’s second five-year term is a war on biodiversity to the bitter end, even in the wake of an unprecedented heatwave. Throughout his terms of office, he has behaved like the gravedigger of wolves and all wild animals, pandering to the livestock and hunting lobbies. His trip to Roquefort and his speech there on Thursday, July 3, 2025 are only the most recent expressions of this.

Death as the only solution… Spoiler: it’s not even effective!

The prefect coordinating the National Action Plan on wolves has already expressed her concern that an “unprecedented number” of wolves have already been killed in France at this time of year. The Head of State, on the other hand, chose to add fuel to the fire.

“We mustn’t wait until it [wolves, editor’s note] has settled in, until you’ve made all the investments, before we can harvest”. Using a filthy technocratic vocabulary (“to harvest”, he says…), Emmanuel Macron assumes the role of leading proponent of the eradication of wild animals, wolves in the first place. With these words, he is admitting his own failure: making farmers believe that culling is the only solution, not cohabitation. Killing has been made easier for several months now, with ministerial decrees each more hypocritical than the last.

A stupid and wicked policy

Systematic shooting does nothing to resolve the anger of breeders! Scientists are unanimous: in Spain and Michigan (USA), they found that shooting led to an increase in predation in subsequent years and in the surrounding area. In France, this ineffective and deadly policy has been practiced for years…

Wolves are our allies, like all living creatures

Political power’s disconnect from reality is reaching new heights. Emmanuel Macron is a bad pupil and a good demagogue: he claims that the wolves have been reintroduced, an appalling lie from a president. He would do better to listen to the eight out of ten French people (Ipsos/One Voice poll, November 2024) who believe that wolves have their rightful place in the wild. Though their detractors may not like it.

Tracking down every newcomer in the departments, like Camille in the Saône-et-Loire region and Milo and Mina in the Corrèze region, will solve nothing.

State rhetoric is largely inspired by the nauseating rhetoric of lobbies. Hunters in the Alpes-Maritimes region claim that wolves threaten wildlife. You can’t make this up, coming from those who slaughter wild animals at every turn. Are they afraid that wolves are much better than they are at their so-called mission of “regulation”?

The facts are there: in the Netherlands, it has been shown that wolves prefer wild ungulates such as roe deer and wild boars. Around Mont Ventoux, they have helped to regenerate forests. In Poland, they are a welcome sight, “regulating” deer and wild boars in the fields.

Fires and soil erosion, the consequences of unbridled pastoralism

The main culprits in the degradation of nature are intensive activities, of which unbridled pastoralism is one. The lobbyists have certainly done their homework! Emmanuel Macron seems to ignore the basics: the source of imbalances in ecosystems never comes from nature itself! When nature reclaims its rights and regains its health, it should be welcomed as a blessing.

Join us in refusing to let wolves become the expiatory victims of a deadly outdated system that is driving us into the wall at breakneck speed. Sign to put an end to their persecution!