Indre prefect circumvents laws to kill wild boars en masse. We attack!

In the Indre region, wild boars are targeted everywhere, all the time. For them, there is no respite: they can be hunted from June 1, 2024 to May 31, 2025, and are classified as “ESOD”, which means that any landowner can ask to have them shot if they are on his land. What’s more, in certain “sensitive areas”, they can even be shot at night in April and May. In short, a life spent dodging hunters’ bullets.

But that wasn’t enough for the prefect, who has just decided that, for seven months, the lieutenants of louveterie and pests, hunters commissioned by the State, will be able to organize as many beats as they wish themselves. Yet the law is clear: each administrative beat hunt must be the subject of a specific prefectoral decree, which must be limited in time and geographically targeted.

“Affinity beats” to circumvent the laws

The prefect has entirely fabricated the concept of “affinity beats”, a notion that exists nowhere in the law. The aim of this strategy is to enable lieutenants of louveterie and pests to decide freely on the modalities and timing of the beats, without having to comply with regulatory constraints, and – above all? – without having to adopt a specific decree for each beat, which we could attack… A strategy which seems to be developing within the prefectures, in the image of the decree of the prefect of the Ain region authorizing the massacre of badgers, which we attacked.

By authorizing these operations for seven months without justification or limits, the prefect of the Indre region is paving the way for an organized massacre of wild boars. It’s yet another slide that could well become widespread if it isn’t quickly stopped. We are therefore taking the case to the Limoges administrative court!