After the flames, bullets? Calling for a ban on hunting in the Aude region
The year 2025 was marked by record-breaking fires. In the Aude region, a woman lost her life. Thousands of hectares of vegetation were reduced to ashes. And how many animals, trapped by the flames, lost their lives? Yet, as if nothing had happened, hunting season is about to open in the region. One Voice is officially asking the prefect to take action by suspending hunting for the coming season.
Year after year, a veritable massacre
They are already bearing the brunt of the effects of heat waves, climate change, agriculture, and rampant urbanization. Now they must also face massive fires that recur year after year, such as those that ravaged the Aude region this summer. Birds, mammals, batrachians, insects… Disoriented by the smoke, they are unable to flee and suffer the unbearable assault of the fire.
Those that do not die will have no shelter in which to recover and heal their wounds. No more water or food, only dead tree trunks as far as the eye can see. Despite this heartbreaking situation, and while volunteers on site are trying to rescue them, hunters are preparing their guns, just a few days before the opening of the 2025-2026 season.
Sign to ban hunting in disaster areas!
We do not accept that bullets should follow flames. Nearly nine out of ten French people (87%) are in favor of banning this activity in forests affected by drought (Ipsos/One Voice survey, October 2023), a common-sense measure that is nevertheless opposed by the authorities, who are too busy defending the interests of trigger-happy people.
To demand an immediate halt to shooting and give the animals a little respite, we invite you to sign the petitions launched by Futur Asso and a committed citizen calling for a truce. And we are writing to the Prefect of the Aude region: Mr. Prefect: ban hunting this year!