Hunters and animal supporters overcome their differences on penned hunting
One Voice’s presidents and the Amis des Chemins de Sologne are united against penned hunting and enclosing nature.
The unprecedented meeting between Muriel Arnal, One Voice’s president, and Raymond Louis, Amis des Chemins de Sologne’s president, will take place on Tuesday 8 March 2022.
Edit from 3 March 2022
The One Voice team have responded favourably to an invitation from the Amis des Chemins de Sologne [Friends of Sologne’s Trails] and planned the meeting for Tuesday 8 March, to agree on a common goal: putting a stop to penned hunting in Sologne.
The news of this alliance between hunters and animal supporters has made many people happy and gives a glimpse into the possibility of working hand in hand towards progress against one of the most cruel practices in hunting.
Unfortunately, among critics of this move forward, the lobby groups of hunters are at the forefront! In Chasseur Français [a French hunting magazine], we were called extremists. Clearly, those who believe this are not extreme, since the invitation was retracted today, 24 hours after the article was published on the specialist magazine’s website, disapproving of our specific approach.
More than ever, our door remains open and our hands are outstretched to those who want better free movement for wild animals and an end to hunting in enclosed properties where the animals have no chance of surviving.
One Voice’s presidents and the Amis des Chemins de Sologne are united against penned hunting and enclosing nature.
The unprecedented meeting between Muriel Arnal, One Voice’s president, and Raymond Louis, Amis des Chemins de Sologne’s president, will take place on Tuesday 8 March 2022.
The two presidents of the associations will put their differences aside to better unite in the things that bring them together: nature and biodiversity in France and in Sologne in particular, where penned hunting is a curse.
Whilst the Amis des Chemins de Sologne, hunters by the way, have been fighting against fencing in this territory for years as it prevents wild animals from moving around freely, One Voice fights against all hunting and has carried out an undercover investigation into hunts in closed parks to report on the extreme cruelty.
The two associations have been consulted by parliamentarians, in particular within the framework of the proposed law against fencing in nature. They hope that hunting in closed properties, leaving no chance of survival for the animals trapped inside and preventing the animals from having free movement, will soon be a thing of the past. A ban in Sologne would be a strong sign.
They are calling on parliamentarians to at least responsibly vote for this ban, or failing that, to prohibit fencing of properties, which prevents animals from being able to move around to enter and leave.
It was agreed that Raymond Louis would receive Muriel Arnal, founder of One Voice, at the headquarters of the Amis des Chemins de Sologne, and that after a short press conference they would go out in the field, as close as possible to the fenced properties.
Translated from French by Joely Justice