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Victory for the French and for the wolves!

Victory for the French and for the wolves!

Victory for the French and for the wolves!
12.08.2016
Nimes
Victory for the French and for the wolves!
Wildlife

Shooting wolves has been stopped Thanks to citizen associations! The Administrative Court of Nîmes has just ruled in favour of ASPAS, Ferus, One Voice and ALEPE, by suspending on an interim basis the Prefectural Decree of 22 July 2016 which unlawfully ordered the “reinforced levy on shooting” a wolf for a duration of 6 months in 6 communes in the Caucasus sector Méjean, in Lozère.

Most French people want wolves to be kept in our country. This is done: in his order suspending the order on 9 August, the judge stressed that the sustainability of sheep farming in the department is not compromised by the presence of a wolf, and notes the absence of the implementation of « defensive shooting » prior to the enhanced levy on shooting.

The administrative judge recalls that battling against wolves cannot be allowed if everything has not been implemented to protect herds at risk of predation. There are indeed other means of protecting herds than a spate of shootings that the Prefects can authorize, who aims to kill wolves. A protected species, only as a last resort should this be considered and only if damage is caused despite the implementation of protective means.

The court thus confirms a « serious doubt as to the legality » of this prefectural decree that does not respect the conditions defined in the ministerial decree governing the shooting of wolves, yet itself extremely permissive.

It is unacceptable that the Prefects, representatives of the law, continue to allow the shooting of a protected species while many herds are left without surveillance or protection, at the mercy of other natural predators such as stray dogs.

The solution is not in slaughter but in a profound change in farming practices and the subsidy system for pastoralists, which currently does not sufficiently encourage good practice.

In the run-up to the regional elections, this fundamental problem is surely too delicate to be tackled by politicians of all types who prefer to multiply the shooting of wolves by not rubbing hunters and the agricultural lobbies up the wrong way, at the risk of taking illegal decisions.

Finally, the associations demand the end of shooting wolves, and the suppression of the compensation given to farmers not protecting their livestock.

 

Press :

Madline Reynaud – ASPAS

Jean-François Darmstaedter – FERUS

Muriel Arnal – One Voice

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Read urgently: human beasts? For a vegan revolution

Read urgently: human beasts? For a vegan revolution

Read urgently: human beasts? For a vegan revolution
04.08.2016
France
Read urgently: human beasts? For a vegan revolution
Other campaign or multi-campaigns of One Voice

Vegan abolitionists advocate a real revolution to end the exploitation of animal persons and consider them as our equal by virtue of their conscience and sensitivity.

Inspired by the immediacy in the United States during the nineteenth century that demanded the immediate abolition of the slave trade and the recognition of their civil and political equality, they rejected the principles of gradualism (policy of « small steps »).
Hostiles towards the well-meant speeches and campaigns aimed at improving the daily lives of animal victims of slavery, loudly and clearly proclaim their rejection of the animal object and its exploitation by humans. They point out that the problem lies not in he way animals are used, but in the use of them. Farming, production of meat, milk, fur, wool, leather, honey, silk, etc., aquatic “shows”, hunting, fishing, bullfights, zoos, deportation, imprisonment, vivisection, genetic manipulation, domestication, confiscation, destruction and pollution of territories…: all of these crimes of speciesism that we are collectively collaborating in and that we have always turned a blind eye to.

Since we do not need animal products to live, we humans continue to unnecessarily enslave and massacre members of other species. The only reason we harvest and kill hundreds of billions of terrestrial and marine animals each year is that we like the taste of their flesh and their body-made products: eggs, milk, etc., just as we have always done. We love to put on their skin, their fur and their wool by habit.

This manifeston upsets our values and points to the good conscience behind which the followers of the «organic» and of a so-called ethical consumption of animals. Without detours or concessions, the authors claim that there is no « human » exploitation of others, nor is there any torture or « human » murder. They denounce the millennial concept of continuous consumption and defeat our alleged moral superiority, which is disproved by the way we treat other creatures who share with us the Earth – creatures we have enslaved, reduced to the state of means at the service of our own ends. To awaken the consciences, they do not hesitate to describe our behaviour as genocidal, quoting the famous sentence of Isaac B.
Singer, Nobel laureate of literature: « When it comes to animals,all men behave like Nazis. »

Writers, philosophers, legal experts and lawyers agree to give a voice to these silent victims who, like us, have the right to life and respect. This book is a platform for women and men working intellectually, practically, peacefully for the animal cause. To work for animals means to put an end to their exploitation and not to regulate them; it means proceeding to their emancipation and not planning their slavery. It means working for a more just world that includes in the community of equals all beings endowed with sentience, by virtue of that very sentience. Such goals can only be achieved through the adoption of a vegan lifestyle, a practical application of the abolitionist theory and fundamental moral principle.

This book (the first devoted to abolitionist veganism to appear in France) is still a powerful tool to lead others to reflect on animal liberation and its implications. Finally, he hopes to contribute humbly to stave off the circle of violence that we initiated and of we are tragically prisoners of.

Human beasts? For a vegan revolution (dir Méryl Pinque) was published by Autrement on March 11, 2015 in the collection « Universités populaires & Cie ».

With, in alphabetical order, the contributions of: Gary L. Francione, Valery Giroux, Patrick Llored, Meryl Pinque and Gary Steiner.

Preface by Michel Onfray.

Helping chimpanzees at home

Helping chimpanzees at home

Helping chimpanzees at home
01.08.2016
Congo
Helping chimpanzees at home
Wildlife

The true protection of endangered species can only be done in the wild, not in a Zoo. That’s why One Voice has joined partners with P-WAC to save the last chimpanzees in the Congo.

One Voice’s Project for Wildlife and Apes Conservation is led by Amandine Renaud, an experienced and passionate primatologist.

In France, P-WAC intends to raise awareness about deforestation and the disappearance of great apes in order to change the public’s perception of our closest cousins.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the association is setting up a rehabilitation centre for poached chimpanzees. Its objective is to protect this critically endangered species in situ, while contributing to the sustainable development of the local population. The creation of such a centre, in close collaboration with the women’s community, is indeed creating jobs for the villagers who are involved. Responsible ecotourism is still underdeveloped in the Congo despite the richness of its fauna and flora, while it would at the same time save the great apes, the heritage of the country and also to finance projects of this type.

It is indeed in Africa that chimpanzees live, not in a Zoo. Sanctuaries such as proposed by P-WAC are the only way to preserve not only the great apes as species, but also as animal people bathed from childhood in a particular culture, closely related to the world of trees and the forest, using tools, rituals, remedies, to track signs and gestural codes transmitted from generation to generation. Locked up on top of each other in a concrete enclosure, moved from one Zoo to another for breeding purposes, captive great apes can only give birth to mentally hybrid beings, born under human control in a socially and sensory impoverished space. Otherwise conserved in a refrigerated gene bank awaiting cloning!

And the great apes are also part of those other hominids that we have systematically massacred, from Australopithecus to Neanderthals, before moving on to indigenous peoples, threatened like chimpanzees by the destruction of their tropical forests.

It’s enough. Gorillas, bonobos, chimpanzees and orang-utans are the ultimate representatives of this abounding bush of anthropoid primates whose territories we have reduced only for Homo sapiens. We can still save them, if we really want to.

Many people today demand – and One Voice first – that fundamental rights be granted to great apes, the latter not only sharing with humans an ancestry barely 6 million years old, but also a great number of emotional and cognitive abilities.

An appeal has just been launched for UNESCO to finally adopt the concept of « living world heritage » and integrate great apes. This is the least we can do for those « tropis » on the blurred border between humans and non-humans that Vercors describes in his book “The Denatured Animals” and who have the misfortune to look so much like us.

And it is in this spirit that One Voice supports the P-WAC initiative.

Two young dolphins on their way to greece

Two young dolphins on their way to greece

Two young dolphins on their way to greece
19.07.2016
Plailly
Two young dolphins on their way to greece
Exploitation for shows

Two dolphins from Park Asterix will soon leave France. The zoo which will rehome them is in a country in the midst of an economic crisis. One Voice demands this transfer to be stopped immediately.

The cabin door shuts with a bang on Ekinox and Naska. The two dolphins jump in their harnesses, despite the huge doses of sedatives that they have received. Soon, the airplane will vibrate from the roaring motor as the plane flies towards Greece. The two young dolphins, only five and six years of age, have just left their mothers forever. Farewell Bailly! Farewell Femke! Despite the fact that they are way off being adults yet, the park thinks they are mature enough to be sent to new aquariums, as part of the « European Endangered Species Programme (EEP), for the breeding and conservation of endangered species, » which dolphins are not.

All of their life, these young ‘stallions’ will encounter unknown inmates, furious to see them disembark into an always confined space. Each transfer is a nightmare for them. Recently, in 2014, the young Angel died of stress on the tarmac. In 2016, Galéo exposed the glaring problem of a bad social integration in an out of control community of detainees.

This is the fate that awaits these two young males who will be leaving Park Asterix. In a few weeks, they will be sent to Attica Zoo. They won’t be the only ones: Veera, Delfi, Leevi, and Eevertti will also soon join the Greek aquarium from the Tampere dolphinarium in Finland. Lacking visitors, the establishment was forced to close last October. After trying for some time to send them to a marine sanctuary, the Särkänniemi theme park finally decided to send the four survivors to Greece. But these survivors consist of an old couple of tired dolphins and their two young sick dolphins. And the remaining two Lithuanian dolphins from Attica Zoo will be the dolphins with which these French dolphins will share their new life? Are they hoping to recreate a new family with this motley crew?

At first populated by 11 Lithuanian dolphins, 3 of which were caught in the Black Sea, the Attica Zoo dolphinarium, like all of the others, can’t offer good conditions for dolphins. Two dolphins died and two were still-born between 2010 and 2015. And Park Asterix and the Särkänniemi theme park have decided to send their ‘specimens’ there instead of looking at a rehabilitation solution in a sheltered sea location.

Why? It should be known that for a few months now, there have been strange movements afoot in the European dolphinariums. Harderwijk seems to want to rid itself of its surplus in Spain or Dubai, whilst other dolphins circulate from one country to another in strict secrecy, discretely discharged and re-embarked. Is the dolphin market already reorganising itself?

One thing is certain, that supplying new dolphins to the Attica Zoo will reinforce its position. In Greece, the law banning wild animal shows was voted by parliament in 2012. Still not in application, it is just as valid for circus animals as it is for dolphins. In artificially increasing the population at Attica, the industry undoubtedly hopes to prevent its definitive closure and indefinitely slow the implementation of this law.

In their damp hammock, their skin covered in white lanolin, their eardrums screaming under the horrendous pressure, shivering with cold, our exiled dolphins don’t think about all of the above. They simply have to endure the long voyage and suffer the sadness and anguish, as they travel further away from their mothers and their family, left much too early to never be seen again.

This isn’t how wild dolphins travel. This isn’t how they create new ‘pods’ either.

Who would still like to lead us to believe that dolphinariums care about the dolphins that they exploit? How can Park Asterix justify such a commercial decision?

One Voice has written to them to ask them, backed up by experts, to put an immediate stop to the reproduction and exchange programmes for the dolphins.

Emergency: Wolfs and wolf cubs in danger

Emergency: Wolfs and wolf cubs in danger

Emergency: Wolfs and wolf cubs in danger
19.07.2016
Savoie
Emergency: Wolfs and wolf cubs in danger
Wildlife

The wolves of Savoy have been the target of the Prefect for a few days now and they need you, your peaceful presence in the places they frequent, because they are threatened.

After the slaughter of a nursing wolf in the department, leaving her cubs defenceless and without food … it is the turn of her companion who tries the impossible to feed her young, to be targeted, with other wolves. The associations for the defence of animals and nature are mobilizing to prevent these massacres.

If you are on holiday or if you have free time, if you like hiking and watching wolves is your interest … You can help us.

We need witnesses, on the spot who can take turns morning and evening essentially since during the day the sector isquite well attended by observers, in order to watch and monitor the area (Méraloup sectors, ruines chien-loup Chavanu, Les Jeux, the Charmettes, Le Loup ruine), and to alert us if anything happens. Take with you a camera and a mobile phone and go out in two’s, it’s safer.

We remind you that every citizen is free to walk is these areas and is entitled to check what is happening on the ground, but of course remaining within the law, in a 100% peaceful way. If ONCFS agents, officers of the law, park rangers or other uniformed authorities ask you to follow them do not resist. We are not here to provoke confrontation, but to observe and testify. We did this for the ibex of the Bargy, successfully, today it’s the wolves who need us.

Thank you for your mobilization!

Contact:
info@one-voice.fr

Adam’s challenge on behalf of animals

Adam’s challenge on behalf of animals

Adam’s challenge on behalf of animals
19.07.2016
Pyrénées
Adam’s challenge on behalf of animals
Other campaign or multi-campaigns of One Voice

On the 27th of August, the athlete Adam Pardoux will cover a distance of 84km in the Tour des lacs in the French Pyrenees Mountains for One Voice. Here is a little more about this committed sportsman…

Adam Paroux is undoubtedly a fantastic example, demonstrating that we can compete at a very good level and be vegan at the same time. Sharing One Voice’s values, he wanted to take on this challenge to highlight the importance of the respect for animals and the planet. He is fund raising to support our campaigns!

One of his sources of inspiration is the professional athlete, Brendan Brazier, the author of a series of vegan recipe books for people who undertake intense sporting activity.

Adam says: « From a sports point of view, I am more focused, les tired and I recover more quickly between sessions, (…) vegan cooking also has the advantage of minimising the impact on the environment. (…) I buy locally where possible and I have a personal goal of ‘zero waste.’ (…) this objective goes hand in hand with the vegan lifestyle. »

Travelling between France and the United States, Adam noticed that the choice of vegetarian and vegan products and their accessibility was more developed over the Atlantic. The majority of restaurants there offer a vegetarian or a vegan option. In France, even if vegetarian or vegan restaurants are becoming more commonplace, the population is more interested in the consumption of organic and non-gluten products. Animal products are very much present.

Competing for One Voice, Adam wants to « defend the right to life of those who cannot express themselves in words, who are the precondition for our survival. I also want to raise awareness of the impact that modern life has on animals and our environment. »

Supporting him in this event will help raise public awareness of animal suffering caused by human activities and will contribute to One Voice’s campaigns. Find the link to his fundraising platform on Leetchi here: https://www.leetchi.com/c/asso…!