A united gathering “Hunting: A deadly problem “, Saturday 13th October 2018 at 2pm, at the Place de la République in Paris

A united gathering « Hunting: A deadly problem « , Saturday 13th October 2018 at 2pm, at the Place de la République in Paris

A united gathering “Hunting: A deadly problem “, Saturday 13th October 2018 at 2pm, at the Place de la République in Paris
08.10.2018
Paris
A united gathering “Hunting: A deadly problem “, Saturday 13th October 2018 at 2pm, at the Place de la République in Paris
Wildlife

The day after the resignation of Nicolas Hulot, more than forty associations who support the conservation of animals and nature find themselves united together to march against hunting on October 13^thin Paris. Hunting is responsible for more than 45 million deaths of animals each year in France, not to mention the « collateral victims ». These major players demand an immediate and in-depth reform of hunting before its final abolition. A petition, listing the 10 key points has already accrued 130,000 signatures.

Independence of the Police
regarding hunting;
Prohibition on hunting species
considered in danger;
Prohibition on hunting during
the breeding periods;
Prohibition of traps that
kill;
The end of hunting known as
« traditional trapping methods » (glue, crushing, snares,
nooses…);
Abolition of underground
hunting of all species;
Abolition of hunting for all
species;
Abolition of hunting in
protected areas (National Parks, Nature Reserves, Biological
Reserves);
2 days per week without
hunting or trapping (including Sunday) and during all school
holidays;
Mandatory annual medical visit
for hunting license with eye sight testing.

Associative
partners of the rally for a radical reform of hunting

Action Nature Rewilding France
AIA – Animal Interfaith Alliance (Grande Bretagne)
AJD – Animal Justice et Droit
Alliance Anticorrida
Animal Cross
Animal Testing
AOC – Alliance des Opposants à la Chasse
ASPAS – Association pour la Protection des Animaux Sauvages
AVA – Abolissons la Vénerie Aujourd’hui
AVES France – A Voice for Endangered Species
C’est Assez!
CACC – Collectif pour l’Abolition de la Chasse à Courre
CCE2A – Collectif Contre l’Expérimentation et l’Exploitation Animale
Collectif animalier 06
Collectif Chats 100% Stérilisation Obligatoire
CNDA – Confédération Nationale de Défense de l’Animal
CVN – Convention Vie et Nature
CRAC Europe – Comité Radicalement Anti Corrida
CREL – Fédération pour la défense et la protection des Lévriers
Education Ethique Animale
Ensemble pour les animaux
Faune Alfort
FAADA – Fundación para el Asesoramiento y Acción en Defensa de los Animales (Espagne)

FLAC – Fédération des luttes pour l’abolition des corridas
Fondation Brigitte Bardot
Galgos Ethique Europe
L’Animal et l’Homme
L214
La Voix des Lévriers
La Voix des Loups
LAEO – Lawrence Anthony Earth Organization
League Against Cruel Sports (Grande Bretagne)
LRBPO – Ligue Royale Belge pour la Protection des Oiseaux (Belgique)
No Corrida
OABA – Oeuvre d’Assistance aux Bêtes d’Abattoirs
One Voice
P-WAC – Project for Wildlife and Apes Conservation
Paris Animaux Zoopolis
Peta France – Pour une Ethique dans le Traitement des Animaux
FFPA – Fédération Française de la Protection Animale
RAC – Rassemblement pour une France sans Chasse
Refuge animalier de Brax
Réseau-Cétacés
Sea Shepherd
VIDA
Welfarm

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Underground hunting tears the animals from their burrows before the sacrifice

Underground hunting tears the animals from their burrows before the sacrifice
08.10.2018
Monde
Underground hunting tears the animals from their burrows before the sacrifice
Domestic animals

We denounce underground hunting, this type of hunt which is active during the day and which viciously drags animals from their refuge, animals who only go out at night. One Voice asks for its ban.

A type of hunting with inflated rituals and arrogance.

This mode of hunting which is rather confidential has more and more followers. It is a practice of extreme violence. It consists of driving the badger, the fox or thecoypu, to the bottom of its burrow. To assist them, the diggers use dogs such as dachshunds, fox terriers or Jack Russell’s, which they drop into the « mouth » of the burrow. The cry of the dogs helps to locate their victim. With the help of probes, pickaxes or crowbars, they destroy the animal’s home before catching it with large metal tongs and killing it with a dagger, rifle or heel. The corpse is thrown to the dogs. The digging can last up to eight hours. Eight hours of terror and appalling stress, plus dog bites. The cruelty of these architects of massacre is limitless.

Hunting in organized groups

We should no longer accept these ridiculous claims that they are helping to regulate nature or to safeguard the equilibrium of the wildlife, we have read enough of this nonsense, to defend the indefensible. These gentlemen, with dagger in hand, who destroy in « teams », their so-called gangs. More than 1500 teams exist in the country. They meet disguised as gentlemen-farmers, their age-old tradition slung over their shoulders, unearthing their loot and committing their felonies. Paraphrasing someone famous who wrote dialogues, “if the hunters could fly, the huntsmen would be squadron leaders”. Is violence nobler when it is disguised as a form of patrimonial hunting? The underground hunt is nothing more than a violation of the homes of frightened animals who, for hours on end, are stuck at the bottom of their burrows, enduring the howling of the dogs and the strikes of the pickaxes which are demolishing their home and refuge of their little ones.

Foxes, badgers or nutria (coypu), tens of thousands of victims a year.

If we were not dealing with killers, we could almost laugh at seeing the pictures they publish. Congregated around a burrow as in a sacrificial rite with a hunting score board, the poor fragile corpses. Here again our country has a terrifying backwardness in respect of animal life, many European countries protect these species, especially the badger. Will France always be one massacre too late?

One Voice calls for the abolition of underground hunting, as well as all other forms of hunting.

Whether underground hunting exists since the 16th or 17th century or hunting as in our old practices, nobody’s remotely thinking of denying it. Never the less the knowledge that we have acquired over a few centuries is that the sententious of beings such as animals obliges us to no longer be these hapless gunslingers. Looking at our past behaviour, the idiot is forging a tradition, the person abled with reasoning sketches himself a future. Organized gang killing is not part of it and is no longer part of it.

Judgment of the killing of Olympe by a hunter

Judgment of the killing of Olympe by a hunter
03.10.2018
Hérault
Judgment of the killing of Olympe by a hunter
Domestic animals

Today continues the judgment of the hunter having suddenly killed the mare Olympe in her own field and declaring having confused it with a wild boar. One Voice filed a complaint on January 24, 2018.

The hazards of a deadly shot during a wild boar hunt

On January 20, 2018, three hunters were engaged in a wild boar hunt in Valflaunès in the Hérault. During this abominable hunt, one of the hunters entered a private enclosure and fired his wild boar hunting gun. The size of the animal killed did not surprise him at the time, he realized too late that it was actually a mare, named Olympe.

Olympe was resting peacefully in her field in the presence of another horse, before being mistakenly targeted by a hunter. She had been living with the same family for 16 years, who are very affected by her sudden and brutal death. The bullet hit her in the neck, leaving her in terrible pain.

La fameuse « erreur d’appréciation », c’est certainement la même que tout chauffard peut se voir appliquer après un accident mortel, non? Ca marche moins bien? ah! #StopChasse https://t.co/AqbczKujje

— One Voice (@onevoiceanimal) 24 janvier 2018

Hunting, this « leisure sport » is threatening all forms of life

Being able to leave the area of the hunt and then enter a fully fenced off field to finally confuse two animals of radically different proportions, brings up many issues related to security during hunting. The number of animal and even human victims implied by this obsolete practice is absurd.

The owners of Olympe already feared for some time that such an accident would take place, since it is not the first time that hunters entered their private land. Anxious that the worst might happen, they had repeatedly warned the hunters of Olympe’s presence and the proximity of the field with the houses. The second horse is fortunately safe and sound.

Nothing could prevent the hunter from entering the field where Olympe was, before cutting her down in a barbaric way. Once again, the sharing of land during the hunting season has shown its limits and has revealed the cruel and destructive consequences of hunting.

Preserving animals in their environment

The petition launched by One Voice aims to provide a radical reform of the practice of hunting in France, until it can be banned completely, in order to better protect all animals (victims and accidental victims) and participate therefore in their indispensable safeguard within nature.

For Olympe, but also for every victim killed, we must ensure that no more animals fall under the blows of Man, merely for profit.

Join us in this request addressed to the President of the Republic and please sign!

Aline’s Fashion, the Made in France fashion without cruelty and labelled Fur Free Retailer

Aline’s Fashion, the Made in France fashion without cruelty and labelled Fur Free Retailer
02.10.2018
Lille
Aline’s Fashion, the Made in France fashion without cruelty and labelled Fur Free Retailer
Fashion

Aline Nivesse is a fashion designer from the Lille region. Committed to ethical fashion since a long time now, she obtained the label Fur Free Retailer, managed in France by One Voice. Aline’s Fashion is the requirement for a humane fashion, fake fur, worked with grace and modernity. The meeting.

How long have you been working in Fashion?

Always. I studied at ESMOD, I’m part of the 2009 promotion. I founded the brand 7 years ago and specialized in fake fur.

The animal cause is important to me, so I’m against real fur. During my studies I made a project, on drawing, in fake fur. The Principal of the school saw only the project in real life, and told me that it would be cheap, ugly, etc. I contacted a supplier who provided me with a very good quality fake fur. I found my first supplier at that time. The fake fur was shiny, soft, warm… Now I have several, most from England and one in France. The quality is always there!

The Principal of the school admitted that the result was right. I am not sure he has changed his mind though, unfortunately, but my personal conviction has only been reinforced.

I created the company mostly around accessories. At first for pets only, then I diversified. At present, I mainly create and produce accessories for women and also clothes.

Why did you ask to have the « Fur Free Retailer » label?

To reassure customers. Even if it’s written, the label adds security, quality control. It’s not self-proclaimed. Like the « organic » or « not tested on animals ». It’s controlled, that’s for sure. In addition, I knew One Voice from the beginning, I have been a donor since I was eight! I had received on this occasion a handwritten letter from Muriel Arnal to thank me, and I still have it!

I sell my products online, and I send a satisfaction questionnaire. I ask, are you sensitive to the animal cause and fake fur? A quarter makes no difference, but 3/4 are sensitive to the fact. Many people think it’s forbidden, yet it’s not! At the shows, many people tell me they are against fur, but have a real fur collar on their winter jacket. At Christmas time, it’s been obvious for several years. There is a real problem of labelling and information. That’s why this label is so important to me, to provide an additional guarantee to my customers, while raising awareness.

What accessories and clothes do you sell? And those who like it the most?

The collar « snood »: a neck tube that passes over the head, or its larger version that rises over the head like a hood, the hat, the sleeve for a touch of class and retro style. Capes and ponchos, also work very well. Long vests are in production for the next collection. In addition to keychains and other small accessories that I have always been selling.

In salons, I see the differences in clientele, depending on the income of people, their ethics are not the same vis-à-vis animals raised for their fur. The higher the income, the less it hinders wearing of real fur. It is absolutely necessary to carry out a very deep awareness into the layers of society. Because fake fur is really crazy quality, it is sometimes softer than the real thing!

I have imitation rabbit, mink, and other pieces that are totally forbidden if real, like the lynx, or the snow leopard that people could not find elsewhere! The others are colourful, which allows a variety of tones are very pleasant to work with and wear.

To discover Aline’s Fashion, do not hesitate to consult the One Voice labels website!

Lions and tigers have nothing to do with circuses!

Lions and tigers have nothing to do with circuses!
02.10.2018
Monde
Lions and tigers have nothing to do with circuses!
Exploitation for shows

Felines, whether lions or tigers have nothing to do with circuses. They are suffering while travelling in trucks on the roads, locked inside cages that move from morning to night, of which they barely leave and parked up commercial car parks. Experiencing hypermarkets and highways, high-speed turns, boxes that are called cages, this is not common to them in the jungles of Sumatra. Every night, this summer again in France, too many roars have pierced the night air!

No highway, no commercial parking zone in Western Europe evokes a lions’ flat savanna or grasslands of Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, or Zimbabwe. And the same for the tigers, nothing reminds them of Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam or Indonesia…

And yet … the circus animal trainers using force still try to make us believe. As successors to the town criers, they repeat to whomever hears them cry that animals are like members of their family, that they love them. But what is it to love when you use force to separate the members of a family, when you use a whip to jump up or do something beautiful? What is love when we force tigers to live in a community when they are solitary beings? What is love when lionesses, who run for miles every day, are forced to stay in cages?

When the death rattle of lions becomes an order for action

This summer, one of our long-time members, deeply moved by the intense stress of these captive wild animals, contacted us.

After a quiet evening, the noises of trucks parking. The circus settles down. Did he make a request? Does he have an authorization? The big top is up in less time than it takes to say it. A circus is magic! The acrobats on their wires, the trapeze artists, the jugglers … What spectacle in this village! However. In the middle of the night, the dream is broken: a man hears cries in the night, roars of felines that have cracked touch a nerve. Until then, he was protecting himself, even avoiding viewing images in which we see animals suffering.

But this summer, near to his holiday spot, his whole heart wept to the sounds of lions and tigers calling out. The next day, several performances, between them, the eight captive lions sway back and forth in their cage, and each night, again their groans and roars, these calls in the silence … He contacted us, wanting to help them, it was the last straw…

« We must release them, it’s not possible! »

Circuses represent a permanent frustration for felines, incredibly intelligent and sensitive beings, and very good parents. To be shut up (Sultan is still waiting), to be trained (by force, do we really need to remind him?), To experience homelessness, to be dominated and exhibited, to risk one’s life if one escapes (remember de Mévy), to have her children snatched away: sold to other circuses or to private individuals, to be confronted with the constant noise and the loud lights of the shows … How not to go crazy? How not to develop stereotypical movements, these repetitive gestures which are symptomatic of their malaise?!

We count on you all!

Report to your town hall or council the circuses illegally installed in your community, propose to them our handbook to enable them to write a solid decree from the Mayor. Please sign our petition for circuses without animals. Lions, lionesses and tigers have nothing to do with circuses where they are exploited from birth to death. Sign our petition to free the five lionesses and baby lions, Bellone, Caroline, Mandela and Nelson!

Just appointed, the Minister of Ecological Transition and Solidarity is committed against the birds

Just appointed, the Minister of Ecological Transition and Solidarity is committed against the birds
01.10.2018
France
Just appointed, the Minister of Ecological Transition and Solidarity is committed against the birds
Natural habitat

The new minister of ecological and solidarity transition, François de Rugy, has just adopted 10 decrees authorizing the trapping of birds that use old fashioned methods from the past. One Voice attacks these cruel and outdated decrees. Hunting is a deadly problem, which we must fight!

Legally endorsing cruelty to animals

Recently introduced to his new post, François de Rugy signed with his own hand 10 decrees that allow the trapping of birds using nets, wire cages and glue, before having a vote on the law concerning these traps. The pitfalls involved here create stress, create injuries and can even be fatal. Small tits or finches, break their legs, and have the feathers torn off! The minister legalizes these poaching techniques that cause incredible suffering… What eagerness on his part!

We have already denounced these techniques for their cruelty, which make no distinction according to the species, which furthermore damages the most vulnerable individuals. In 10 departments, this represents nearly 150 000 birds targeted and sentenced to death (not counting the other birds or the collateral victims of these heinous traps).

Why aggravate things for birds with such horror, the difficulties for birds is already hard enough?

Birds are already disappearing before our eyes. Of course, they have natural predators, but let us agree that it is humans who cause the worst fate. The massive overuse of pesticides is obviously one of the main causes for their disappearance, creating food shortages in our countryside’s – there are not enough insects to feed them. Add to this that they are the first victims of deforestation. The noise, the pollution and the night lights of the cities, there are so many difficulties to nest, to communicate, to breathe. Their survival and that of their young is all the more precarious. Above all of this, they are also hunted with rifles – almost 9 months of the year, and die by the hundreds of thousands!

One Voice denounces these decrees and brings them to justice!

transition role, perpetuating cruelty and archaic hunting techniques! We are going to attack these ministerial orders one by one and whose only plausible explanation is the link between the government and the hunters’ lobby.

Please sign our petition and come to the united rally for a radical reform of the hunt on October 13 in Paris!

A victory for rabbits, who have been replaced by soft toys!

A victory for rabbits, who have been replaced by soft toys!
30.09.2018
Nantes
A victory for rabbits, who have been replaced by soft toys!
Animal testing

Alerted by students last May, One Voice launched a campaign and contacted the Oniris Veterinary School. This action largely supported by the public has saved dozens of rabbits, spared mutilations and euthanasia. They will no longer serve as course subjects. In their place, on the benches and in the surgery room, soft toys will replace the rabbits so that the students continue to get a hands-on experience! Where they were tearing teeth out, we are now tearing away at victories!

We have just discovered with great pleasure in the magazine l’Obs, that Oniris a veterinary university in Nantes who we denounced for the use of live rabbits in support of their courses, now use stuffed animals in their place. Bravo!

What satisfaction to see that our alert has saved these rabbits who we had denounced the fate of, to the relief of the students. Indeed, training on live animals could only cause more stress for veterinary students!

The school management had written to us explaining that they were working on improving their pedagogy to limit the use of animals in testing. However, the Royal Veterinary College London which claim to be inspirational in their methods, has been applying for more than 10 years now this technique. Would our « help » have « helped » them to take an interest in what exists elsewhere as an effective and respectful alternative method?!

Which just goes to show that with a little encouragement, when we want to, we can do it, and it seems to be done well! It is time for the world of education to make these transformations in order to stop using animals: research and the use of alternative methods should be the norm.

Dozens of rabbits will no longer be mutilated or euthanized!

Will there ever be a Paris Fashion Week without fur? One Voice challenges Prada

Will there ever be a Paris Fashion Week without fur? One Voice challenges Prada
28.09.2018
Will there ever be a Paris Fashion Week without fur? One Voice challenges Prada

While Fashion Week is in full swing in Paris on Saturday September 29^thfrom 10am to 12pm, One Voice with the participation of L214 will be organizing three actions simultaneously in three Parisian neighbourhoods where Prada stores are located: Place de la Madeleine, Place de la Queen Astrid, and Place Michel Debré, to encourage the brand to stop using real fur in thier collections.

From September 6^thto October 2^ndthe « Fashion Week » season will run from Milan to New York, and from London to Paris. London Fashion Week has announced this year to be completely fur free. We hope that this decision will be adopted in time in other cities. More and more brands are turning away from the use of fur, it is time for Prada to do the same. Most recently in the world of luxury it was Michael Kors or Jimmy Choo who obtained the label Fur Free Retailer, which is managed in France by One Voice, after Gucci, or Franck Sorbier.

One Voice calls on the general public and all those involved in animal welfare to contact the Prada headquarters in France to ask the brand to stop using fur. Prada is maintaining and supporting a system in which mink, foxes, rabbits and other soft furred animals live in horrific conditions.

There are dozens of farms in France for fur. Animals that have the misfortune to be born there are locked inside tiny cages, alone or with others. They wither: minks have no access to water while in the wild they spend several hours a day in the water. They develop stereotypies, repetitive movements signs of great stress, rabbits are injured, mink and foxes self-harm or devour each other. Their suffering is immeasurable, they eventually end their miserable lives gassed or electrocuted so as not to damage their precious pelts.

The association had already conducted an investigation in six mink farms in France which in 2017 they brought to light the deleterious consequences of this industry upon the environment and animals.

This action set up in France by One Voice is part of an international campaign for the Fur Free Alliance, an international coalition
against fur of which One Voice is the French representative.

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Circus: monkeys without water and in the middle of rubbish

Circus: monkeys without water and in the middle of rubbish
26.09.2018
Montredon-les-Corbières
Circus: monkeys without water and in the middle of rubbish
Exploitation for shows

A few months ago, we were in action in Montredon-les-Corbières to demand the release of Maya. But she was unfortunately not the only one to be detained by this circus. A few weeks ago, we received an overwhelming testimony concerning the conditions of detention of the other animals in this circus.

Between the heat and squalor

This is from a witness who alerted us. Once again established in Montredon-les-Corbières, and while the heat was around 40 ° C, the circus cages were placed in direct sunlight. As he walked around the trucks, a visitor notices a female baboon watching her infant. It looks through the bars of his cage and signals to the visitor who then approaches. Her mother, frightened and protective, prevents him a moment to approach the visitor. The infant ends up stretching out his arm, which is covered with sores, and catches the finger of the human visitor who is looking at him. The bedding of the cage is rotting and extremely dirty. The smell is unbearable. Remains of spoiled food are strewn on the ground, there are many flies that are having a field day. And in this stifling heat, the monkeys have no access to water.

When it is reported to a circus employee, the latter hastens to close the doors of the trailers, without giving water to the animals. The cage is so dirty that he is struggling to close it. Finally, he succeeds, enclosing the monkeys in the darkness and the smell of decay.

A little further, tigers and zebras, have no water either. However, the law provides that animals should have access to permanent water and that tigers have the opportunity to swim, except in very cold weather.

The right to a dignified life

These living conditions are not only contrary to the law but they also do not meet the physical and mental needs of animals. Access to these animals is not secure which represents both a potential danger to visitors and also an additional source of stress for animals. In nature, baboons are sociable animals that live in groups. These groups are organized in a complex way and managed by strong males, who protect each member of the group. Their territory can reach hundreds of hectares! What will this little baby baboon know? Will he spend his life in an unhealthy cage, he will only leave to participate in humiliating shows?

One Voice cannot resolve this so is pressing charges against the circus. The fate reserved for these sentient beings is inadmissible. All animals deserve a dignified life. You too, act! Please sign our petition to ban the exploitation of animals in circuses.

Orca Morgan, captured in 2010, gave birth to her first baby to Loro Park

Orca Morgan, captured in 2010, gave birth to her first baby to Loro Park
24.09.2018
Tenerife
Orca Morgan, captured in 2010, gave birth to her first baby to Loro Park
Exploitation for shows

Morgan, a small orca born free and now owned by the dolphinarium Loro Park has just given birth to a baby, while the law forbids it and while she is still a child. In partnership with the Free Morgan Foundation, One Voice is fighting for it.

An early pregnancy

Desperate in her concrete pool, Morgan, already bore the signs of loneliness and brutality. Today, at only 11 years old, the little killer whale has just given birth to a baby, while in the wild, female orcas do not get pregnant until about 14 years old. It must be said that for the closed circle of the captivity industry, Morgan represents an unexpected genetic capital. And a source of significant profit. So, for her jailers, what does it matter if she is still a child? It does not matter if it is a wild orca and its reproduction is forbidden. Like Kohana before her, Morgan must reproduce, even if she is far too young for that.

A dark future

In the turquoise water of her prison, she remembers how her mother cared for her when she was small. That at least she was able to transfer her child. So, with all her love, she tries to watch over her child. What will become of him if he survives? What will be his destiny? Will he be condemned to live in a pool, so far from the immensity of the ocean where his mother was born? She who was born in a free family, with customs, a dialect, a culture … Will she tell him of the happiness of swimming among his family? And if he does not survive, will Morgan be able to bear it? The bond between a baby and its mother is extremely powerful in orcas. The recent mourning of Tahlequah is a heart-breaking example. How can we risk imposing such suffering on such sensitive and evolved beings?

No animal deserves to be deprived of its own kind and kept in captivity for the pleasure of humans. Morgan should be free!