NO to the European law against wolves dictated by the lobbies!

The downgrading of wolves? Handed on a plate to the hunters’ and breeders’ lobby, just like the relaxing of lethal shootings against them! 

Two months after the dire approval of the European downlisting, we are continuing to fight to defeat this decision and the political maneuvers riddled with the lobbies’ wishes! 

The deadly reign of the lobbies who want to finish off wolves in France…

Distraught, scandalized, but not surprised, because the desire to harm canids is no longer even concealed. We have just learned that the Savoie Mont-Blanc Interdepartmental Chamber of Agriculture is behind the sudden desire to modify the decree orchestrating the shooting of wolves. We’re not going to pretend to be surprised to discover that breeders are pulling the strings! 

We opposed this new sinister project by responding to the public consultation and firmly denouncing these new anti-wolf measures. The return of these animals is a real boon for biodiversity, both in reality and according to the majority of French people. 

With 192 wolves at risk of being shot in France this year, and 2025 barely underway, nine of them have already perished under the gunshots granted by the prefects. We fear the worst for their survival in France, at a time when the population is already in decline. And rightly so, farmers are constantly after the wolves: when they’re not shamelessly inciting to poach them, they’re scheming with the Ministry of Ecology to further entrench their hypocrisy and recalcitrance to protect the flocks they’re responsible for.

The hatred of the farming world is also falling on the agents of the French Biodiversity Agency (OFB), who are seeing their expert missions (essential for recognizing the damage supposedly attributed to wolves) increasingly hijacked by government departments. How can we trust politicians under such conditions, when the evidence of their complacency towards the farming and hunting lobbies is mounting? 

The perpetual relaxation of the wolf culling policy is a real threat to the conservation of wolves, both in France and in Europe. 

… and in Europe: we fight back!

The drive to wipe out canids is continuing at an European level. 

Following our inter-association request to the European Court of Justice and our repeated appeals to representatives of the Bern Convention, we are once again sounding the alarm. 

The Committee seems to be making an admission of weakness in its decision of December 6, 2024, and recognizes that things have been done backwards. Indeed, it calls for the creation of a working group to define an objective framework for amendments to species protection status. Since when has it been possible to decide to remove animals from the scope of strict protection, even before objective methods have been defined? And then to assert: “Let’s establish consistent rules for those that remain.”