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27.02.2026
France
Feline straying: download our educational tools!
Domestic animals
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The Primatology Centre in Rousset: tripling the number of cages, ignoring warnings… The CNRS pushes ahead
The Primatology Centre in Rousset: tripling the number of cages, ignoring warnings… The CNRS pushes ahead
27.02.2026
Rousset, Bouches-du-Rhône Centre de primatologie de Rousset: tripler le cages, ignorer les alertes… Le CNRS passe en force
Animal testing
French citizens say ‘no’. MEPs call on France to change course. Scientists themselves are expressing doubts and opposing views. Despite this widespread opposition and as a growing number of countries commit to phasing out animal experimentation, the CNRS remains stubborn and intends to spend €80 million of public money to expand the Primatology Centre in Rousset, tripling the number of primates destined for laboratories. This is a dogmatic choice that runs counter to history, animal rights and European guidelines. Faced with this denial of democracy, we are calling on the candidates for the municipal council in Rousset. They cannot remain silent.
The project’s supporters may well invoke ‘scientific sovereignty’, but their justifications remain flawed, and our arguments stubborn. The plan for the Primatology Centre in Rousset involves expanding the facility to raise 1,800 animals instead of the current 600, for the purpose of selling them to laboratories. In short, under the guise of ‘fundamental research’, the aim is to perpetuate an industry designed to produce and commercialise sentient beings, an industry built on the backs of primates.
The protest has spread from ordinary citizens to MEPs. It has only grown over the months, with doubts about the relevance of this project even winning over scientists. On 27 January, the COMETS, an independent ethics committee, issued a reserved opinion, calling for a ‘scientific and contradictory expertise’. The guarantor of the National Commission for Public Debate (CNDP) also highlighted the scale of the opposition and recommended ongoing consultation and justification of the ethical issues at stake.
But who cares! In a 33-page document published recently, the CNRS dismisses the criticism and recommendations out of hand, presenting what is more like a reworked version of their arguments, glossing over their absurdities. We have analysed it, and here are some excerpts. On the menu: lies, approximations, contradictions and, once again, grey areas.
The reassuring goal of animal ‘welfare’: a facade
On the highly questioned and doubted subject of animal welfare, the project’s defenders claim to want to exceed the regulatory standards set by the ministerial decree of 1 February 2013. Natural light, cage size, outdoor access, health monitoring… Point by point, our analysis demonstrates the gap between this façade and the (regulatory) reality.
Based on these announcements, they even claim to be proposing a framework ‘that goes beyond simple biological requirements’.
How can a few square metres of concrete and wire mesh and kibble in a tube be better than forests and freedom?
S’appuyant sur ces annonces, ils estiment même proposer un cadre « qui dépasse les simples exigences biologiques ». Comment quelques mètres carrés de béton grillagé et des croquettes dans un tube peuvent-ils valoir mieux que des forêts et la liberté ?
Le CNRS va jusqu’à oser prétendre que ce projet « devient ainsi un instrument de progrès, non seulement pour la science, mais aussi pour les standards de bientraitance animale ».
Débouchés économiques : des contradictions manifestes
Sur les débouchés économiques,le flou demeure. « Tout projet à visée commerciale est exclu », écrit le CNRS, tout en prévoyant un « accès limité aux acteurs privés ». Exclu ou limité ? La question se pose. Et quid alors des recherches qui expérimentent des traitements ? Seront-elles mises gratuitement à la disposition des patients ? On peut en douter.
Concertation : vous pouvez circulez !
Quant à la recommandation d’une concertation continue, elle est rejetée au motif qu’elle « prolongerait un débat de principe ». En clair, circulez, il n’y a rien à discuter. Ce document censé répondre à la concertation initiée par le CNRS lui-même relève une fois encore de l’opération de communication plutôt que de la transparence et de la remise en question. Aucun engagement clair sur la nécessaire réduction de l’expérimentation sur les primates demandée par la directive européenne 2010/63/UE. Face à cette mascarade, nous avons envoyé un courrier aux candidats de la mairie de Rousset. Il appartiendra au futur édile de délivrer ou non le permis de construire nécessaire à cette extension et d’en assumer les conséquences politiques. La presse locale a été informée de cette démarche.
Le combat reste long, chaque action compte. Nous ne cédons rien. Partagez votre opposition à ce projet en signant notre pétition, et restez informé(e)s pour participer à la prochaine action nationale contre le projet prévue en avril prochain.
Feline straying: challenge your candidates!
25.02.2026
France
Feline straying: challenge your candidates!
Domestic animals
In France, nearly 11 million homeless cats survive as best they can in the dark cornersof our towns and villages. Cold, hunger, disease, malice: their daily life is a constant struggle against these evils. Yet this misery is not inevitable: solutions exist. What is needed is the political will to implement them.
What the law says
The management of stray cats is the responsibility of mayors. Your future elected representatives have the power and the duty to act! Municipal elections are a decisive moment.
A charter to be signed to challenge your candidates:
You can demand concrete commitments to a sustainable and ethical policy and thus in the fight against feline straying. One Voice has prepared a charter explaining the issues and detailing the measures to be taken by municipalities for real action against feline straying. Between now and the mid-March elections, ask your candidates to sign the charter, and send us the signatures you collect!
A clear commitment in five measures:
1. Set up or actively support sterilisation campaigns, in conjunction with local associations and veterinarians.
2. Create and maintain living spaces for sterilised cats that have been released and left free, in particular through appropriate measures such as Chatipi.
3. Conduct awareness-raising campaigns among the population, as feline straying is the result of abandonment and lack of sterilisation.
4. Deploy educational tools to teach children from an early age the values of
responsibility, respect for animals and harmonious cohabitation.
5. Support the mandatory neutering of all cats from 6 months of age at national level, with penalties for non-compliance (except for cats registered in the Official Cat Breed Registry and without outdoor access) in order to tackle the root of the problem.
Chatipi: more than a shelter, a place to live
For years, One Voice has been working to combat feline straying and supporting local authorities willing to take action. Pending a national emergency plan, the Chatipi scheme creates spaces for sterilised stray cats: safe places where they can be protected, fed and receive health care, while raising public awareness of their plight. More than sixty partnerships already exist throughout France.
Saturday 14 March 2026: a national mobilisation
To alert and raise awareness about feline straying, One Voice is organising a coordinated campaign in several cities across France on Saturday 14 March 2026.
Cats without families dont it have a vote. But you do!
Send the charter of commitment to your candidates! No, the street is not freedom. Contrary to popular belief, the life of a stray cat is neither free nor happy. It is precarious, violent and often short. To do nothing is to condone suffering.
Pouring public money into illegal circuses. How far will the State go to protect these offenders?
Pouring public money into illegal circuses. How far will the State go to protect these offenders?
24.02.2026
France
Pouring public money into illegal circuses. How far will the State go to protect these offenders?
Exploitation for shows
Animals being illegally detained or subjected to despicable trafficking, illicit breeding and births, mistreatment, fraud… Many circuses flout the law in order to make ever more profit from those they drag around from town to town. And now, at the request of the State, taxpayers are expected to pay these same criminals handsomely… so that they may continue to abuse animals in sedentary establishments?
One might think that the trainers would stop there in their indecency. This is not the case. Although reproduction has been banned in travelling establishments since 1 December 2023, many have largely ignored the 2021 law against animal abuse.
Tiger cubs continued to be born at Cirque Boletti, Cirque Europa, Cirque Franco-Belge, Cirque Muller-Zavatta, and others. In the Tarn region, at the establishment ‘Au cœur des félins’, three babies were born as recently as 30 June, prompting us to report the matter to the authorities. And what about the Cirque Claudio Zavatta, which we investigated, documenting the birth of nine lion cubs in the summer of 2024, after it cowardly abandoned nine adult lions who were old or in poor health?
An elephant brutally ‘disappeared’
After more than three decades of exploitation, trainer Max Aucante took advantage of the government is inaction to sell Samba to a sedentary Hungarian circus, without anyone noticing. This meant there was no need to comply with the law or to place her in a sanctuary,
even though we had been offering for years to take care of her transfer to a dignified retirement home. And that is not all. To get rid of the elephant, the trainer did not submit any of the mandatory authorisation requests to CITES or the veterinary services.
We have lodgeda request, and an investigation is underway. We have written to the Service and Payment Agency to inform them of these multiple convictions. We call on them not to grant aid to circus operators responsible for mistreatment and illegal exploitation. These offences, like the immense suffering of the animals, should not be rewarded with public money or encouraged to continue. To take further action, sign our petition to end the exploitation of animals in circuses. Pouring public money into illegal circuses. How far will the State go to protect these offenders?
One Voice writes to the Service and Payment Agency to oppose State
Government announcements on wolf culling: an ethical, ecological and political scandal
Government announcements on wolf culling: an ethical, ecological and political scandal
20.02.2026
Haute Marne
Government announcements on wolf culling: an ethical, ecological and political scandal
Wildlife
During a visit to Haute-Marne earlier this week, ministers Annie Genevard and Mathieu Lefèvre announced future measures for the ‘management’ of wolves. Behind this administrative language lies a clear political agenda: to kill more and more wolves. Every announcement, every decision, every decree sounds like a death sentence for these animals who are simply trying to live. This is a historic step backwards, and we will continue to fight it.
An increase in the number of wolves to be killed each year, the abandonment of herd protection in favour of lethal shooting… Behind these choices are lives, packs and families. Wolves are not ‘pests’: they are sentient beings, with deep social bonds, who have roamed
our forests and mountains for millennia. Far from promoting coexistence, the government is choosing violence in the name of a false solution that sacrifices animal life on the altar of convenience and profit for a certain farming community.
A conscious political choice: shooting rather than protecting
This is not a policy aimed at safeguarding a protected species: it is a licence to kill, an unacceptable moral and ecological step backwards, under the guise of social peace. Today’s wolves bear the weight of their past: a century ago, they were exterminated in France. Now, history is repeating itself in a more insidious form: first, stop protecting herds, then increase the number of shootings, normalise the practice and, tomorrow, make wolves huntable. This scenario is not exaggerated. When protection weakens year after year, extermination becomes a possibility once again.
Coexistence is possible. It simply requires intelligence, courage and responsibility: mandatory protection of livestock, fully funded by the state, and technical guidance for farmers. More killing will not solve anything. Giving in to short-term pressure is not a solution. What is at stake today goes beyond the issue of wolves: it is about our collective ability to defend biodiversity in the face of the choice to destroy again and again. We cannot accept such a setback for animals. For the wolves, our fight continues: we will challenge these decrees in court.
A lion cub exploited in a video clip: appeal hearing on 17 February in Paris
A lion cub exploited in a video clip: appeal hearing on 17 February in Paris
16.02.2026
France
A lion cub exploited in a video clip: appeal hearing on 17 February in Paris
Exploitation for shows
In 2017, this very young lion was taken from his mother, who was being held captive in a circus, to be sold and exploited in a video clip. Reported to the authorities by a whistleblower, he was found to be very weak and showing signs of beatings. On 17 February at 9am, the Court of Appeal in Paris will examine this case which was tried in the first instance in 2022. One Voice will be present in court to defend this little feline, denounce trafficking linked to circuses, and remind everyone that these illegal practices continue to break individuals, far from the public eye.
The events date back to 2017. Thanks to images posted on social media, the authorities discovered that a young feline was being held in an apartment in Seine-Saint-Denis. Presented as a ‘little tiger’, it was in fact a lion cub. Purchased for a video clip from circus performers based in Normandy, then transported by car to Seine-Saint-Denis, it found itself locked up in an apartment in Noisy-le-Sec.
A stolen childhood
At this age, a lion cub should be suckling its mother and beginning to learn about life. But, confined to the back of a circus trailer, separated from his family too soon, the cub was immediately subjected to greed and exploitation. When police officers found him in Noisy-le-Sec, he was suffering from multiple conditions – dehydration, parasites, nutritional deficiencies – and had a broken tooth and wounds on his nose and skull. Seized in extremis, he was taken into care at a shelter.
The man being prosecuted admitted to having looked for a lion cub for the filming of a video clip. He admitted to having brought him from a circus and keeping him in an apartment, then, on the day of his arrest, claimed that he no longer had him in his possession. How can such acts be justified and how can one claim to be caring for an animal that was purchased illegally and then transported from one flat to another in order to hide it from the authorities? His lies did not last long: the young animal was found the same day, weak, injured and traumatised in the flat.
Circus performers willing to do anything
This case is not an isolated one. The networks involving circuses feed other markets, particularly those of taxidermists, where animals, whether alive or dead, are nothing more than commodities.
In 2018, the young lioness Cersei was seized by customs after passing through the same networks. These cases are part of the activities that we have been denouncing for years, particularly trafficking and mistreatment.
On 17 February at 9am, the Court of Appeal in Paris will once again examine this case. We will be present in court to defend this lion cub and to remind everyone that animals are individuals in their own right. Take action with us, sign and share our petitionso that circus animals finally have a voice.
Update 17.02.2026
The verdict will be handed down on 24 March.
A lion cub exploited in a music video: appeal hearing on 17 February in Paris
Sold by a circus, mistreated and locked up in an apartment, a lion cub will be at the centre of an appeal hearing on 17 February.
Cantal: a wolf shot dead, the State falling short. We demand justice!
Cantal: a wolf shot dead, the State falling short. We demand justice!
13.02.2026
cantal
Cantal: a wolf shot dead, the State falling short. We demand justice!
Wildlife
On 4 February, a wolf was illegally shot dead in Cantal. The shooter claims there was ‘confusion’ with a fox. And already in the press, it is announced that the case could end with a simple reminder of the law. We refuse to accept this trivialisation. We are lodging a request so that the death of this wolf does not go unnoticed and so that the law ceases to be an empty promise.
The fable of a ‘mistake’
According to statements reported by the newspaper La Montagne, the hunter believed he was targeting a fox before discovering that it was a wolf. This justification raises serious concerns. The difference in size, morphology and appearance is obvious…
Certain identification is a basic and non-negotiable principle of hunting. Shooting without certainty is, at the very least, gross negligence… and a very worrying fact for the safety of humans as well.
Claiming ‘mistake’ is not enough to erase the facts. A protected animal was killed. Its death is very real. Behind the word ‘confusion’ lies an irreversible shooting and a sentient being who, once again, pays the price for laxity.
A protected species… really?
Unlike foxes, wolves are protected under French and European law because they were eradicated in the past. Killing them is prohibited in principle, except in regulated cases. On paper, the legal framework is clear.
However, today we are talking about a simple reminder of the law for an act that amounts to poaching. This perspective sends a disastrous signal. Can we seriously claim that a species is protected if the illegal killing of an individual results in such a lenient measure?
Every wolf counts. To trivialise the death of this wolf is to foster a sense of impunity and to undermine the credibility of the rule of law in environmental matters.
Faced with this situation, we refuse to remain silent and are lodging a request. The law must be enforced seriously, especially when it comes to protecting living beings. We demand that the circumstances surrounding this shooting be fully investigated and that appropriate legal action be taken.
The credibility of nature conservation policies is at stake. So is the respect due to a species that has simply reclaimed part of its natural territory.
Join us in demanding an end to these massacres by signing our petition.
Stop the persecution of wolves!
Cantal: a wolf shot dead, the State falling short. We demand justice!
A wolf killed ‘by mistake’ in Cantal: One Voice lodges a request and demands justice.
Primatology Centre in Rousset: Europe questions France on primates bred for its laboratories
Primatology Centre in Rousset: Europe questions France on primates bred for its laboratories
12.02.2026
Rousset, Bouches-du-Rhône Agrandissement de Rousset : le doute gagne les scientifiques !
Animal testing
Long kept under wraps, the project to expand the primatology centre in Rousset has now been revealed. At a time when technological advances, particularly thanks to AI, are leaping forward, the use of our closest cousins in laboratories is giving rise to growing controversy, even beyond our borders. And faced with this outdated French stance, the campaign is changing scale. A group of MEPs is challenging the French authorities and sharing its concerns about this project.
An initiative that is clearly out of step with scientific progress, the current and future priorities of European research, and the expectations clearly expressed by civil society
Through investigations, petitions and demonstrations, our campaign has broken the silence, and now the voices of these caged primates are being heard within European institutions. Europe refuses to condone the exploitation of macaques, baboons and marmosets, social, empathetic and intelligent beings condemned to years of isolation, torture, hardship and manipulation.
A fight for transparency
Beyond the fate that awaits these animals, the MEPs also denounce the laboratories’ serious lack of transparency. This is a culture of silence that we have been fighting for a long time. In November 2025, faced with the repeated refusal of the CNRS and the University of Aix-Marseille to provide us with public documents detailing their experiments since 2023, we won our case in the Administrative Court of Marseille. This failure was also highlighted by the guarantor of the National Commission for Public Debate (CNDP) in their assessment of the consultation process.
The future of primates in laboratories: a political choice
The Rousset case is revealing. It forces decision-makers to face up to their responsibilities given that the expansion of the site is not a scientific necessity, it is a political choice that places France at odds with forward-looking research. If the project is faltering today, it is thanks to our constant mobilisation. The debate is now public. The CNRS must respond to the report of the consultation guarantor by 16 February.
Primatology Centre in Rousset: Europe questions France on primates bred for its laboratories
Following our campaign, the desire to expand this breeding facility which supplies laboratories has caused outrage even among members of the European Parliament.
Baby has died: chronicle of an abject abandonment
30.01.2026
Tunisie
Baby has died: chronicle of an abject abandonment
Exploitation for shows
Baby, an African elephant captured in the wild as a calf, for whom One Voice has fought for two decades, died yesterday at the Belvédère Zoo in Tunis. After more than thirty years of abuse and political failings, her death is no accident: it is the result of a system that sacrifices wild animals amid a general indifference.
A stolen life of boundless cruelty
Baby was only two years old in 1985 when she was torn from her family on the African savannah. Like so many other baby elephants, she was captured to feed the entertainment industry. From then on, her life was no longer her own.
Baby was trained, violently, by Gilbert Yeuk Bauer, to endure all forms of humiliation: degrading circus acts, film shoots, television shows, commercials, commercial events and private events. Rented out like an object, presented everywhere as a veritable
freak show, for anything and everything, Baby never knew any respect, let alone freedom. When she was not being exhibited, she was locked up in the darkness of a circus truck. She was spared nothing. Alerts ignored, responsibilities evaded
Since 2005, One Voice has been following Baby’s ordeal. Investigations, reports, legal action, offers to take her into a sanctuary: everything has been tried. Convictions were obtained against her trainer. However, Baby was never taken away
from him. The authorities let it happen.
In 2023, her operator got rid of her by sending her to a Tunisian zoo, without any
intervention from the French Ministry of Ecological Transition. This transfer felt like an
additional sentence, far from prying eyes and from responsibilities.
The Belvédère Zoo: the final prison
In the summer of 2023, One Voice visited the Belvédère Zoo in Tunisia. This place is known for its serious shortcomings: in 2017, for example, a crocodile was killed by stones thrown by visitors.
Baby was surviving there alone, even though elephants are deeply social animals. She was suffering from serious leg problems and was not receiving appropriate care. Permanently exposed to the public, she was subjected to intrusions, littering, and
inappropriate food given to her by visitors who crossed the barriers.
Baby’s death is the result of political choices, administrative failings and a system that continues to tolerate the exploitation of wild animals by circus trainers. Her death forces us to face up to what the entertainment and captivity industry does to animals.
We refuse to allow others to suffer the same fate, like the hippopotamus Jumbo who is soon to be the next victim.
Baby is dead: chronicle of an abject abandonment
Baby, an elephant exploited throughout her life, has died in Tunis. A symbol of a
complicit system, the French authorities abandoned her.
Thanks to our action, the Prefect withdraws orders allowing hunters to slaughter wild boar in Seine-Maritime
Thanks to our action, the Prefect withdraws orders allowing hunters to slaughter wild boar in Seine-Maritime
29.01.2026
Seine Maritime
Thanks to our action, the Prefect withdraws orders allowing hunters to slaughter wild boar in Seine-Maritime
Wildlife
Since 1 January, and while the hunting season is still open, all huntmasters in Seine-Maritime could take out their weapons to shoot wild boar without any restrictions throughout the year. Too numerous, too much damage… the arguments are always the same. How many of these animals will have been sacrificed for the leisure activities of a few? One Voice has taken the matter to court in order to obtain an emergency suspension of the cull. Even before the hearing (scheduled for 3 February), the Prefect withdrew all his orders, proving that this umpteenth gift to hunters was illegal.
When 2026 rhymed with wild boar massacres
Hunted in winter during the hunting season and classified as a species likely to cause damage (ESOD), wild boar have long been the preferred target of hunters. After the unlimited night-time shooting in Moselle, the Prefect of Seine-Maritime authorised huntmasters throughout the region to kill wild boar without limit, day or night, from 1 January to 31 December 2026. This amounted to a permanent authorisation to slaughter them indiscriminately.
These animals, which are emblematic of our forests, are persecuted everywhere and by all means. In addition to being valuable in and of themselves, they are also useful within ecosystems – a fact too often forgotten. Their presence helps to aerate the soil by turning it over: without them, microbial activity would be endangered which would lead to the loss of the phenomenon known as ‘bioturbation’.
Hunting: a completely outdated pastime for which wild boar pay a heavy price Prefects are constantly brandishing the same scare tactics (damage, overpopulation, etc.) to conceal the responsibility of hunting in the current situation. It should not be forgotten that these animals adapt and increase their birth rate as soon as one of their own loses its life. Added to this is feeding, which artificially nourishes them. Is it any wonder then that populations are increasing? Worse still, some wild boar are bred and slaughtered in enclosures. Under these conditions, how can we believe the rhetoric of ‘regulation’? It is high time to implement alternatives to these mass culls. In response to these orders, we took the matter to the administrative court to obtain an emergency suspension. Even before the hearing was held, the Prefect withdrew them, thus sparing the wild boar.
This withdrawal does not however in any way reflect a change of heart in favour of wild boar. It is solely due to a legal point that was overlooked by the Prefecture. We therefore remain fully vigilant: if the Prefect were to issue new orders, we would
challenge them again without hesitation.
To speak up for wild boar against those who want to eradicate them, sign our petitions for a radical reform of hunting!
Thanks to our action, the Prefect withdraws orders allowing hunters to slaughter wild boar in Seine-Maritime