Big protest against hunting on Saturday 1st October
September
28th
2016
The
French are fed up with hunting. The survey* conducted by One Voice in
partnership with ASPAS has just recently shown that 78% of French
people want to ban hunting on Sundays for obvious safety reasons. 91%
of French people want a hunting reform.
Yet
the public authorities are strangely deaf to this strong expectation
of our fellow citizens. And our politicians even more.
Laurent
Wauquiez, President of the “Republicans” of the
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, has just offered some 3 million euros to
hunters in its region to restore their hunting huts or to intervene
in our schools to “train” our children in a certain idea of
biodiversity…
The
President of the Republic has killed it in the bud the long-awaited
National Agency for Biodiversity, by not including in it the National
Office of Hunting and Wildlife. This public establishment and its
1200 officials remain in the hands of the hunters who are in the
majority on its board of directors.
To
denounce this, but also the death of 30 million animals each year for
a “Past Time” from another age, the Collective of September 21st
which brings together 78 associations (joined by Sea Shepherd, the
Foundation Brigitte Bardot and One Voice), organizes a large
demonstration to end hunting and trapping.
October
1st from 10 am to 1 pm, Place Joachim-du-Bellay (Paris 1st)
Numerous
association stands and catering on site
After
the demonstration a Kate Amiguet’s film, Hunter- killer – imposter?
will
be screened at the Jean Dame cinema at 2:30 p.m. (entrance at 2:00
p.m.)
It
will be followed by a debate with the director, Gérard Charollois
(president of the CVN, author of the book On Ending the Hunt) and
Pierre Athanaze (president of Action Nature, author of the Black Book
of Hunting).
List
of associations from the collective of September 21st:
269
LIFE FRANCE, Acta Anti speciesism (or Acta Gironde), Embassy for
Pigeons, Action Nature Rewilding France, AEC, Animal Cross, AEP,
Animalsace, Animalibre, APIE (Environmental Protection and Initiation
Association), Association of the Animal Collective of 06, Association
Protection of Château de Flée, AVES France, AVF (Association
Vegetarian of France), AVRE, Bio Living in Brie, Brouillard
Définitif, CAUSA, C’est Assez, C’Topoil, CCE2A (Collective Against
Animal Experimentation and Exploitation), CHAMADE (Animal Theaters
and Mediation), C.H.A.N.T (for Harmonious Cohabitation with other
Animals and Nature on Earth), CNPA (Collective Nantais For the
Animals), Collectif Société Anti-Fourrure, Combactive, CHÂTEAU de
FLÉE, Monument historique, C.RÉ.DO. Pigeons et Protection Animale,
CREL (Recognition and Self Help Club with Greyhounds), CVAAD, CVN
(Convention Life and Nature), DDA (Animal Rights), Droit des Animaux
Sud, Dignité Animale, Entre Chiens et Loups, Groupe d’Actions
Animales Moselle, Guadeloupe Animaux, F.G.N. (fairy gardians of
nature), GREEN, Humanimo, INFO VÉGANE, Initiatives Terre, Jack et
Jessie Protection Animale, la fondation M.A.R.T. (Movement for the
animals and respect of the land), La Griffe, La Voie de l’Hirondelle,
La Tribu de Sapeur, L’arche de Valudo, Le Klan du Loup, Les
Désobéissants, L214, Laissons Leur Peau Aux Animaux (LLPAA), Les
compagnons de Freya, Ligue Universelle pour la Nature et les Animaux,
Les 3A, Les Crins Verts, Liberté Égalité Animale 49, Matoucœur,
MFP (French mission for the protection of monkeys), Mouvement pour la
Cause Animale, Oïkos Kaï Bios, Oiseaux Nature, Patacha, Point Info
Loup Lynx, RAC (RAssemblement pour une France sans Chasse),
Protection Faune Sauvage Sedan, RAN (Respect
of animals and for Nature),
Respectons, Initiatives Terre, Refuge “Ame’Ni’Maux”, Refuge
« Amis des Bêtes », Sauvetage et Chats en Détresse, Secourisme
Animalier, SSA49, SVPA (Société Vosgienne de Protection Animale),
Stop Souffrances Animales 49, Vigilance Citoyenne pour le Pâtis,
Wolf Eyes Asbl.