At Charles de Gaulle airport, monkeys from Mauritius are transported by SmartLynx Airlines to Boston. We’ll be there!
At Charles de Gaulle airport, monkeys from Mauritius are transported by SmartLynx Airlines to Boston. We’ll be there!
19.09.2024
At Charles de Gaulle airport, monkeys from Mauritius are transported by SmartLynx Airlines to Boston. We’ll be there!
Animal testing
One Voice has been alerted by Abolicion Viviseccion to the involvement of SmartLynx Airlines in the transport of monkeys from Mauritius to the USA via Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle airport. The flight is scheduled for next Monday. A happening will take place on September 23 at 11am on rue du moulin 95700 Roissy in France to denounce this unacceptable complicity.
These intelligent, sensitive animals will endure extreme stress and anxiety. Locked up in tiny cages, they will be transported in the hold, exposed to the deafening noises and unsettling sensations of an over 21-hour journey. However, all this is nothing compared to what awaits them once they arrive at their destination. Our recent investigations into primate farms in Mauritius have highlighted the harsh conditions these animals endure even before their departure.
Faced with this news, we have decided to take action. On September 23 at 11am, during the stopover at Roissy airport, we will be organizing a peaceful happening. We intend to send a clear message denouncing these practices and urge SmartLynx Airlines to withdraw from transporting primates for experimentation.
Thanks to the commitment of our association and its partners, we have already achieved a major victory: Air France has decided to stop transporting primates for laboratories. We continue to demand that all airlines, and SmartLynx Airlines in particular, follow suit and cease transporting primates immediately. It is inconceivable that companies continue to be complicit in the torture of thousands of animals.
Please join us in calling on SmartLynx Airlines to permanently cease its active and commercial involvement in transporting monkeys to a life of endless experimentation.
Mountain Galliformes: One Voice takes up the fight again in 2024!
Mountain Galliformes: One Voice takes up the fight again in 2024!
20.09.2024
Mountain Galliformes: One Voice takes up the fight again in 2024!
Hunting
Last year, our legal action saved over 1,000 galliformes. This year again, the prefects are preparing to reauthorize their hunting. Grey mountain partridge, rock partridge, black grouse, hazel grouse, rock ptarmigan… all are targeted, even though their populations are in constant decline. They are already bearing the brunt of climate change and the destruction of grass by farmed ewes, which means they can no longer feed their chicks. From the Alps to the Pyrenees, we’ll be attacking the decrees as a matter of urgency to demand that the operations be suspended! First hearings at the Grenoble administrative court on September 27 at 10am for the Isère, Savoie and Haute-Savoie regions, and at the Marseille administrative court on October 7 at 2pm for the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence region.
In 2023, an unprecedented number of victories and hunters put in their place by the Council of State
Last year, thanks to our numerous legal victories, Alpine galliform hunters had to put their guns away just a few days after the opening of the season. Panic-stricken, they naturally sought to counter-attack by taking their case to the Council of State against the rulings that were in our favor. But the response was swift: whether in the Haute-Savoie, Savoie or Alpes-de-Haute-Provence region, the judges at the Palais-Royal swept aside and rejected all these appeals.
The hunting of these birds is sadly indicative of the outdated mentality of a small group of individuals who believe that nature belongs to them. They have no problem shooting animals of species on the brink of extinction, whose habitat is being reduced to nothing by global warming and intensive pastoralism, for the sake of their “hobby”! If hunters’ aim was the outright destruction of biodiversity, they wouldn’t be doing it any other way.
In 2024, from the Alps to the Pyrenees, save as many individuals as possible!
On September 15, the culling of these emblematic French mountain birds began in the Alps. In the Savoie, Haute-Savoie, Isère and Alpes-de-Haute-Provence regions, hunters put on their boots and, armed with their rifles, track them down to the very last corner. We won’t let them!
Of course, the prefects waited until Friday evening to publish the acts setting the number of birds who could be killed, a well-known strategy for preventing us from taking legal action in time. But we were ready, with our lawyers, and appeals have already been lodged! On September 27 at 9:30 a.m., the Grenoble administrative court will rule on the orders for the Savoie, Haute-Savoie and Isère regions. On October 7 at 2pm, the judges in Marseille will examine our appeal for the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence region.
Strict wolf protection: 300 European NGOs co-sign a joint declaration
Strict wolf protection: 300 European NGOs co-sign a joint declaration
19.09.2024
Strict wolf protection: 300 European NGOs co-sign a joint declaration
With the EU due to hold a decisive meeting in the near future to discuss the proposal to lower the level of protection for wolves, over 300 European organizations, including One Voice, are voicing their opposition to this retrograde project, in a joint statement published on September 19 at the initiative of the European Environmental Bureau (EEB).
Don’t reverse conservation progress: EU must step up coexistence efforts and maintain strong wolf protection!
The undersigned civil society and animal welfare organisations call on EU Member States to reject the European Commission’s proposal to weaken the protection status of wolves under the Bern Convention. We urge you to instead intensify efforts to achieve coexistence with large carnivores, such as wolves and bears.
The wolf is a strictly protected species and must remain so according to scientific evidence. Once nearly extinct due to persecution, hunting and habitat destruction, wolves have made a remarkable comeback to Europe’s landscapes, due to the legal protection granted by international and EU law, as well as the efforts of competent environmental authorities, farmers, scientists, NGOs, and local communities. However, their populations are still far from being in a good and viable conservation status (1). The latest IUCN assessment shows that six out of nine transboundary wolf populations in the EU are vulnerable or nearthreatened. Lowering their protection now would put the species at greater risk and undermine the EU’s legal requirement to achieve viable and stable wolf populations.
At present, there is no scientific basis to support an EU-wide modification of the existing legislation. The wolf’s recovery is still ongoing, and the main objectives of both the Bern Convention and the Habitats Directive (i.e. to ensure the restoration and conservation of endangered species) have not yet been reached. Additionally, and as confirmed in the Commission’s in-depth analysis, there is no scientific evidence that culling effectively reduces depredation on farmed animals. The objective of the Commission proposal is to reduce such wolf depredation, but there is no scientific evidence on the effectiveness of culling to achieve this. In fact, it could even be counterproductive, and increase attacks on farmed animals since it risks disrupting the wolves’ social structure.
The Commission’s proposal comes at a time of ongoing efforts to achieve coexistence between local communities and wolf populations. Over the past decade, the EU and its Member States have invested significant time and resources to enhance coexistence. This is facilitated by several EU and regional platforms, and successful LIFE-funded projects showcasing mutually beneficial solutions in the short and longer term. The proposition to reduce wolf protection undermines all those efforts and investments. It would be a shift away from the EU’s goal of achieving harmonious coexistence between humans and large carnivores.
We acknowledge the challenges that arise from the return of the wolf in some EU regions, and the impact it can have on individual farmers and animal owners. Therefore, stepping up efforts to make existing prevention measures, such as fencing, guarding dogs and reinforcing human presence, more accessible for animal owners and supporting them with the appropriate prevention tools is essential. Efforts should be maintained to adapt existing solutions to their needs. Moving away from a coexistence approach towards lowering of the protection of the wolf would ignore all the farmers who have invested in and are successfully protecting their herds from wolves for years.
It is essential to recognise that safeguarding wolves in Europe goes beyond protecting a single species; it involves preserving biodiversity and fostering a balanced living together with nature. Wolves play a vital role in ecosystem stability. Their return to regions from which they had once been eradicated marks a significant conservation achievement. In the current global biodiversity crisis, we cannot risk compromising this progress.
Recent surveys indicate strong public support across Member States for maintaining stringent protections and promoting coexistence with wolves, even among rural communities most affected by the presence of large carnivores. Wolves are an integral part of our shared European heritage and landscapes.
Rather than diminishing wolf protection, the EU should instead:
Maintain and enhance efforts to promote coexistence between wolves and local communities, emphasising prevention measures to reduce depredation on farmed animals and improving compensation schemes. Many Member States should make better use of existing information on co-existence measures, good practice examples and available EU funding opportunities.
Ensure proper enforcement of the existing legal protection provided by the EU Habitats Directive across all Member States and eliminate illegal hunting of wolves. Member States must deter environmental crimes, not legalise them, as confirmed in a recent case of the Court of Justice of the European Union (2).
Support initiatives to raise citizen awareness and provide accurate, science-based information about wolves to the public, including on the ecosystem and socioeconomic benefits provided by large carnivores, and the appropriate behaviour in case of an encounter. EU citizens have the right to be well-informed.
Respect the due scientific process enshrined in EU nature conservation legislation. According to Article 17 of the Habitats Directive, Member States will submit their conservation status assessment in 2025. Any discussion on the protection status must be based on those reports, and not be based on political pressure.
Downgrading legal protections for the wolf would not only hamper conservation efforts, but also go against strong public support and scientific evidence favouring wolf conservation in Europe. Furthermore, the politically motivated proposal of the European Commission severely risks creating a precedent for other species and opening the door to other changes in EU Nature Laws. This would lead to legal uncertainty and set back years of effective conservation efforts across the continent. Such a move would seriously tarnish the EU’s reputation as a leader in environmental protection.
Wolf populations in the EU are in unfavourable or inadequate conservation status in six out of seven biogeographical regions according to the most recent assessments done under Article 17 of the Habitats Directive.
“At the heart of felines” in the Tarn region: a ‘refuge’ that looks just like… a circus!
“At the heart of felines” in the Tarn region: a ‘refuge’ that looks just like… a circus!
18.09.2024
“At the heart of felines” in the Tarn region: a ‘refuge’ that looks just like… a circus!
Circuses
In early June, we were alerted to the opening of a new park in the Tarn region. On its Facebook page, the establishment “At the heart of felines” boasts about “raising awareness of respect for and conservation of wildlife”. Given the photos posted online – enclosures and stools strangely resembling circus equipment; tigers cubs inside a house, on a sofa, others bottle-fed instead of being with their mothers – we wanted to know more. Our investigation reveals a completely different reality, far removed from animal welfare and species conservation.
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A refuge? With whips, screams and humiliating acts
We’re told of a project to build a refuge for circus felines on several hectares of land, while remaining very opaque about the source of funds: the construction will be carried out without collecting donations, without applying for subsidies, and without charging for visits. One wonders how and when the project will see the light of day.
In the meantime, Maya, Thor and Malish, the two tigers and the trainer’s lion, are still locked in a tiny enclosure with a truck for shelter. For the audience’s amusement, they are threatened with sticks and made to climb on stools, walk on two legs and jump over each other. It’s all very natural behavior… in a circus tent.
“Educational refuge” means educating people about the great felines that are tigers and lions. Letting them live a stress-free life, without subduing them for the sake of entertainment. Touching, kissing wild animals and making them jump on stools under the threat of blows is anything but educational, and sends out the wrong message. Muriel Arnal President of One Voice
The State has a duty to help the lions, tigers, elephants, hippos, etc. held in circuses by demanding their placement in sanctuaries and funding the construction of such places. They announced it, but were they lying? It’s outrageous to let animals from endangered species, whose suffering due to training and captivity is the subject of a worldwide consensus, languish on the pretext that cage trucks remain parked in the same place.
Indre prefect circumvents laws to kill wild boars en masse. We attack!
Indre prefect circumvents laws to kill wild boars en masse. We attack!
18.09.2024
Indre
Indre prefect circumvents laws to kill wild boars en masse. We attack!
Hunting
The prefect of the Indre region has taken a further step in the elimination of wild boar populations: he has just authorized “affinity” beats, a notion completely made up by him to enable lieutenants of louveterie and pests to kill as many as they please, for seven months throughout the region. We are bringing an urgent legal action against this decree before the Limoges administrative court. Hearing on September 19, 2024 at 9:30 am.
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!
Victories by the bucketful against underground hunting, a practice that is slowly disappearing!
Victories by the bucketful against underground hunting, a practice that is slowly disappearing!
Victories by the bucketful against underground hunting, a practice that is slowly disappearing!
After five years of legal battle, the much-decried practice of badger digging has been significantly reduced in France. This positive development is due not only to the many successes achieved before the administrative courts, but also to the media coverage generated by the major awareness campaigns run by our three associations in recent years. Together, AVES France, ASPAS and One Voice are committed to fighting against the cruelty of underground hunting, until this medieval practice is completely abolished.
France is one of the last countries in Europe to authorize hunting by digging up, also called “vénerie sous terre”, a particularly cruel and indiscriminate practice that involves sending small dogs into badger burrows to corner them, digging into the earth sometimes for hours at a time, then removing the animals from their burrows with large pliers before killing them.
This hunt, open from September to January, is also possible from May 15, by simple decision of the prefecture: this is known as the “supplementary period” of underground hunting. In the absence of any political will to abolish underground hunting altogether, it is precisely these “supplementary periods” against which ASPAS, AVES and One Voice have filed dozens of legal pleas* in recent years, resulting in numerous victories. In 2024 alone, out of the 26 petitions for suspension filed, our associations obtained the suspension of underground hunting in 20 departments**.
Among the main arguments accepted by the judges: the absence of significant damage attributed to badgers (in crops, road embankments, etc.) and the presence of young badgers in the burrows in spring and summer. In fact, the French Environment Code prohibits the killing of the young of a species whose hunting is authorized, and badgers have a low reproduction rate, with their young only becoming truly independent in autumn.
As our legal precedents grow, victory after victory, prefects are increasingly reluctant to authorize supplementary periods, much to the chagrin of hunters. Some no longer authorize them at all, others propose shortened periods, while others, finally, persist in maintaining the opening of underground hunting from May 15 at all costs, even though a judge has already suspended and then annulled the contested decree…
In 2020, the number of departments authorizing this controversial hunt from May 15 was 72. By 2024, the number had fallen to 19!
An overwhelming majority of French people are opposed to digging up
A long-ignored animal in France, the badger has benefited from major awareness campaigns in recent years, and more and more citizens are sympathetic to their cause.
According to a 2023 Ipsos poll commissioned by One Voice, 84% of French people say they are in favor of banning digging up, whatever the species concerned, a percentage that has remained stable since 2018. This strong opposition is regularly expressed during public consultations each year, prior to the adoption by prefects of decrees authorizing or not supplementary periods of underground hunting. Every spring, ASPAS and AVES France are particularly active in publicizing the existence of these consultations and inviting as many citizens as possible to take part. Even if the opinions are only consultative, and very few prefects take them into account in their final decisions, the rejection of underground hunting is often irrevocable (this was the case this year in the Saône-et-Loire region, for example, with 84% of unfavorable opinions).
In 2020, the publication of One Voice‘s infiltration of an underground hunting crew enabled many people to discover in pictures the atrocity of underground hunting. In 2022, the large-scale citizens’ petition filed by ASPAS on the French Senate website was relayed by numerous associations and influencers, enabling the required 100,000 signatures to be reached and surpassed in less than 6 months.
That same year, ASPAS launched World Badger Day on May 15, a major awareness-raising campaign in the field, in the media and on the Internet, in which numerous partner associations across France took part and continue to do so every year.
On May 13, 2024, a letter co-signed by 10 NGOs was sent to the Ministry of Ecological Transition calling for a total ban on underground hunting. It’s inconceivable that such cruel and destructive hunting is still allowed in 2024: we won’t give up until it’s completely abolished!
* Other nature protection associations with a local scope of action have also contributed to the legal battle (FNE Aura, LPO Aura, Indre Nature, etc.).
** Allier, Ardennes, Aube, Calvados, Charente-Maritime, Corrèze, Creuse, Eure-et-Loir, Ille-et-Vilaine, Seine-et-Marne, Deux-Sèvres, Haute-Vienne. For the 6 other departments where the courts did not follow our request for suspension this year (Cantal, Gironde, Lot-et-Garonne, Loire-Atlantique, Puy-de-Dôme and Vendée), pleas for annulment will be heard after the fact. In addition, One Voice and AVES France have filed other pleas which have resulted in the suspension of the supplementary periods of underground hunting in 8 other departments: Aveyron, Cher, Côtes d’Armor, Eure, Finistère, Indre, Indre-et-Loire and Morbihan.
Neglected “hunting” dogs in the Ain region: One Voice files a complaint
Neglected “hunting” dogs in the Ain region: One Voice files a complaint
11.09.2024
Ain
Neglected “hunting” dogs in the Ain region: One Voice files a complaint
In a village in the north of the Ain region, two dogs used for hunting are relegated to an enclosure isolated from residential areas. Behind the fence, they survive with no attention or occupation other than waiting for a drop of water or a bit of food. We filed a complaint.
They were discovered by chance by a whistle-blower on August 25, while out for a walk. Locked away out of sight, with no one to hear them, as in the Lot-et-Garonne region, the two “hunting” dogs live in their own excrement. Among the dead leaves, car batteries litter the ground. Are they even fed and watered in this landfill-like prison? At the end of August, but also at the beginning of September, their bowls were empty and dry, always in the same place. With summer not yet over, they don’t even have a drop of water at their disposal. And they are forced, starving, to beg for food from the rare strangers who pass by.
“Hunting” dogs, forgotten by all
When alerted, the local police were already aware of the situation. How many other “hunting” dogs, bred for this deadly pastime, live in unworthy conditions, exposed to dangerous objects, without food or water, with no one to look after them, taken out only for the hunting parties of those who then store them like equipment?
After years of investigation and legal proceedings, we managed to save almost 90 of them in February 2020 and March 2024.
We’re not backing down for the two dogs in the Ain region either. We have filed a complaint for mistreatment and asked that they be seized and entrusted to us. Join us in calling for an end to hunters’ preferential treatment, and for the animals they keep to finally enjoy the same protection as other dogs: sign our petition.
The disgusting “goose neck” game must not resume: One Voice is once again calling for it to be banned!
The disgusting “goose neck” game must not resume: One Voice is once again calling for it to be banned! 09.09.2024
Puy-de-Dôme
The disgusting “goose neck” game must not resume: One Voice is once again calling for it to be banned!
Horrific, scandalous, contrary to elementary standards of hygiene, the Saint-Bonnet-près-Riom patron saint’s festival is sticking to its guns. After our investigation in September 2023, which revealed young people beating and decapitating lifeless animals and being applauded for their “acts of bravery” and praised by their elders for their lack of empathy, we protest against the cowardice of the town hall and the insistence of the town’s events committee on maintaining this sickening tradition as it is. And we reiterate our demand that geese, rabbits and hens should no longer be killed and their corpses martyred on the pretext of entertainment.
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The remains of geese, hens and rabbits hung by their legs to be successively kissed, beaten and then decapitated by 18-year-old men and women: taken in Saint-Bonnet-près-Riom on September 17, 2023, the images from our investigation have – quite rightly – offended many people and prompted two regional councilors to react.
For the animals, fight until this “game” disappears
Once again this year, we won’t give in. We have nothing against festivities. But does a convivial event, such as the patron saint’s festival which will be held again from September 20 to 23, justify putting animals to death and mutilating their bodies? Does our society need to bring more young people into adulthood by inculcating violence in them and cultivating in them, as a virtue, a lack of empathy?
We demand that the festivities take place without any animals falling victim to the “goose neck” game, and we call for a ban on this practice throughout France, as we have also done in Beaux and Arfeuilles.
“Don’t give a shit about getting caught”: wolf poisoned in the Drôme region, hearing on September 10 in Valence
“Don’t give a shit about getting caught”: wolf poisoned in the Drôme region, hearing on September 10 in Valence
09.09.2024
“Don’t give a shit about getting caught”: wolf poisoned in the Drôme region, hearing on September 10 in Valence
In March 2022, in the Drôme region, a wolf was deliberately poisoned, baited with the remains of a lamb full of pesticides. His corpse was then moved and buried to better conceal it. Ironically, the culprits include… a member of the local Wolf/Lynx network run by the prefecture and the French Biodiversity Agency! The investigations revealed the existence of a particularly organized family and friends network, with the stated ambition of killing wolves by poisoning. We have of course filed a civil case and will be present at the trial to obtain justice for this wolf.
The five defendants, who were initially due to appear before the Valence judicial court on December 12, 2023 for “unlawful destruction and transport of protected species” and “inappropriate use of phytopharmaceutical products”, will finally be tried tomorrow, September 10, 2024, almost two and a half years after the events. We expect the judges to severely punish the perpetrators, who used despicable and perfectly illegal means to kill the animals who bothered them.
“I’m going to clean that son of a bitch” (sic)
At the time, a meticulous collaboration was organized in Crupies, Drôme, to kill wolves. The defendants’ confessions and wiretaps leave no doubt as to their intentions. First, there was the man who knowingly infiltrated the Wolf/Lynx network in order to obtain information “to find the dens and kill the cubs in the spring”. He even admits to having stationed himself at night, on several occasions, with his rifle fitted with a silencer and thermal sight, completely illegally, to – speaking of wolves – “fuck the bastard” (sic). He adds in colorful language: “I’m going to clean that son of a bitch” (sic) or “I’m going to clean the mountain” (sic), not giving “a shit about getting caught” (sic). These attempts to kill the wolves only failed because the wolves didn’t show up where the trap was waiting for them.
Pesticides banned since 2008
There’s the man who supplied the poison, knowing full well how it would be used; those who organized themselves to prepare the bait, and those who transported and buried the poisoned wolf’s body in order to conceal the evidence.
All communicating in “coded messages”, lest their telephone conversations be intercepted. Their exchanges made it clear that they intended to continue poaching if they hadn’t been arrested…
Depending on the facts of the case, the accused who are the most blamed could face up to three years’ imprisonment and a fine of 150,000 euros for “destruction of a protected species”. As some of them hold hunting licenses, we are also asking for these to be withdrawn. On September 10 at 3:30 p.m., in the Valence judicial court, we will be speaking out on behalf of this poisoned wolf, who died after a painful agony, as evidenced by the traces of “pedaling” found near his body, a sign that he suffered long spasms and convulsions before dying.
Five associations help avoid wolf hunts planned for late August in the Aveyron region
Five associations help avoid wolf hunts planned for late August in the Aveyron region
03.09.2024
Five associations help avoid wolf hunts planned for late August in the Aveyron region
Wildlife
This Saturday, August 31, 2024, the Aveyron prefecture was preparing to organize several wolf hunts in two of the department’s villages, all in collaboration with the French Biodiversity Agency (OFB), lieutenants of louveterie and pests and local hunting associations. The aim was to kill one or more wolves in the villages of L’Hospitalet-du-Larzac and Sainte-Eulalie-de-Cernon.
Given that the Aveyron region has no wolf pack on its territory, and that two dispersing wolves have already been killed between October 2023 and July 2024, these shootings demonstrate a genuine desire to eradicate wolves from the region.In the spring, the prefect even published – and then repealed thanks to the efforts of animal rights activists – an order authorizing the slaughter of stray dogs in the same villages.
Once again, the State is knowingly multiplying its attacks on the natural return of wolves outside the Alpine arc, through deliberate regulation, weakening their population and preventing the re-establishment of a favorable conservation status. Despite the fact that these two villages are considered to be “difficult to protect” (a notion increasingly used by State departments to justify the systematic and spontaneous use of shooting, to the detriment of non-lethal means of scare tactics), no attacks have been recorded for several weeks, which raises the question of the reason for this derogatory slaughter authorization.
In response to this information,a letter co-signed by several wildlife protection NGOs, including One Voice, ASPAS, FERUS, Pôle Grands Prédateurs and Focale pour le Sauvage, was sent to the Aveyron Direction départementale des territoires (DDT), helping to abort the hunting project.
We, the environmental protection associations, fear that this policy of regulating the lupine population will worsen in the future. We are sounding the alarm at the escalation of the situation, which seems to be tending towards indisputable wolf hunting on national territory and possibly throughout the European Union.