In Anost, stop to the massacre of captive wild boars: let’s offer them refuge
In Anost, in the Morvan regional park, wild boars have been locked up for years in a tourist enclosure managed by the French National Forest Office (ONF), often starving. Several times a year, hunters are given carte blanche to slaughter the animals with bow and dagger. On March 2, nine of the eighteen wild boars were killed in cold blood. We support the project of two wild boar specialists to transform this park into a sanctuary and put an end to the massacres.
A peaceful setting that conceals cruelty
Created in 1970 to entertain tourists and local families, this 20-hectare park quickly turned into a place of suffering for wild boars. ONF agents only come to feed them once a week… or every fortnight! It’s the visitors themselves who bring them a little comfort by attending to their vital needs.
An unbearable situation for these animals, who need several meals a day, made up of fruits, seeds or roots. The consequences of this undernourishment are numerous: weight loss, development of diseases and difficulties for future mothers to carry their gestation to term…
No to carnage, yes to a sanctuary!
As if that weren’t enough, the ONF regularly calls on the local hunting society to come and kill them with bow and dagger, before the astonished eyes of visitors and their children. A variant of farm or spear hunting, the barbarity of which we had denounced in our undercover investigations.
Thirty animals used to enjoy the site, but only nine remain today. But that’s never enough: a few weeks ago, a wild sow was poached in the middle of the night, the umpteenth proof of these men’s total disrespect for animal life.
The managers’ stated intention is clear: get rid of the remaining animals so as not to have to take care of them… and close this semi-liberty area. To protect them, we support the project put forward by two wild boar lovers to transform the park into a sanctuary. Sign and share our petitions for a radical hunting reform and a ban on penned, farm and spear hunting!
