Loro Parque: would Morgan’s baby survive the arrival of the French orcas?

Loro Parque: would Morgan’s baby survive the arrival of the French orcas?

Loro Parque: would Morgan’s baby survive the arrival of the French orcas?
09.04.2025
Tenerife
Loro Parque: would Morgan’s baby survive the arrival of the French orcas?
Exploitation for shows

In early March 2025, Morgan gave birth again in the tanks of Loro Parque. Since then, she has been in isolation with her calf. We are publishing previously unseen images of the two orcas and warning of the danger posed to them by the imminent arrival of Wikie and Keijo in Tenerife. Only a few days old, the young orca may not survive this upheaval.

Here’s an exclusive video of Morgan and her calf, less than a week after his birth at Loro Parque in Tenerife, watched by male orcas Adán and Tekoa.

According to Dr. Gallego, a cetacean veterinarian and consultant to One Voice, there are two major risks to this seemingly puny newborn baby from the imminent arrival of Wikie and Keijo:

Firstly, the stress induced by the cranes, the waves this arrival will create, and the tensions between individuals in these tanks, which are so much smaller than those at Marineland. In which tank will Morgan and his son be in peace? Ideally, a minimum of one month is required before any upheaval takes place. 

And above all: what kind of water filtering system is planned? Morgan transmits her antibodies to the baby via her milk, but we don’t want the bacteria from the French orcas to expose him to diseases… 

Let’s not forget that Morgan’s daughter Ula died at less than three years of age… She was born with a malformation. To this day, we don’t know the real state of health of this little male orca, who doesn’t yet have a first name.

For Milo and Mina, the wolves of the Millevaches plateau, the mobilization continues!

For Milo and Mina, the wolves of the Millevaches plateau, the mobilization continues!

For Milo and Mina, the wolves of the Millevaches plateau, the mobilization continues!
03.04.2025
Corrèze
For Milo and Mina, the wolves of the Millevaches plateau, the mobilization continues!
Wildlife

Under pressure from farming unions blinded by hatred, the Corrèze prefecture refuses to protect the pair of wolves on the Millevaches plateau. They are unique in France due to their genetics, and want nothing more than to live. With our partner, we are redoubling our efforts to defend them!

A family like no other…

We’ve given them a name: Milo and Mina. In May 2023, a wolf had already been killed in Tarnac, but today they are the last representatives of their species in the Limousin. Together, they form a unique couple. Milo, a German-Polish male, crossed a large part of Europe to arrive on the Millevaches plateau. It was here that his path crossed that of Mina, a young female wolf barely two years old whose Italian-Alpine origins have just been confirmed. Fearful and inexperienced, she often travels with her companion. She is doing well and could soon give birth to cubs from an exceptional genetic cross… if only breeders would stop calling for her death.

… which the authorities want to slaughter

Since their discovery in the summer of 2024, the two wolves have been hunted relentlessly, to the point where Milo has been seriously injured. This relentless pursuit must stop! On Wednesday March 19, hand in hand with naturalists from the Carduelis association, we were in Tulle to make their voice heard by the prefect. True to form, the State turned a deaf ear to the arguments of scientists and animal protectors, preferring to side with those who want to see nothing in nature but animals soon to be sent to the slaughterhouse. Profit, a short-term vision, and nothing for biodiversity. Shooting permits remain in place, and the farming lobby is rubbing its hands. For them, it doesn’t matter that Milo and Mina are the only wolves in the whole of the Corrèze, Creuse and Haute-Vienne regions combined. It also doesn’t matter that they haven’t caused any “damage” to flocks since November 2024. The unions want only one thing: to exterminate them, whatever the cost.

Cohabitation, the only solution 

Yet there is another way, the only one that really works. In Italy, wolves, which are much more numerous than in France, are real mascots. In Abruzzo, farmers have adapted to their presence, and the wild animals now attract tourists and nature lovers alike, boosting the region’s economy. So why do we only think of slaughtering them on our side of the Alps?

For Milo and Mina, we are preparing new actions. Please join us and sign the petition that we are carrying in partnership with Carduelis!

Under pressure from frightened cheesemakers, yet more ibexes are slaughtered!

Under pressure from frightened cheesemakers, yet more ibexes are slaughtered!

Under pressure from frightened cheesemakers, yet more ibexes are slaughtered!
27.03.2025
Haute-Savoie
Under pressure from frightened cheesemakers, yet more ibexes are slaughtered!
Wildlife

In 2025, without a general mobilization, 20 potentially healthy Bargy ibexes will once again be slaughtered to appease the cheese lobby. This persecution must stop. Join us in opposing this new decree issued by the Haute-Savoie prefecture, which is open to consultation until April 4.

The ibexes of the Bargy massif continue to be shot on sight, whether healthy or not, even though their numbers are already very low. All this, to buy the peace of breeders who fear the transmission of brucellosis to the animals they exploit. After the inter-associative fight waged on behalf of these peerless climbers, the Haute-Savoie prefecture

has learned its lesson and no longer plans to slaughter them en masse. It’s about time! Having said that, it’s all very well to (finally!) play “top of the class”, but it’s clear that we shouldn’t be asking any more of the state services, who are nevertheless planning to kill twenty of them…

Another indiscriminate massacre…

The prefecture is submitting for public consultation a draft new decree authorizing the slaughter of 20 ‘unmarked’ ibexes, i.e. never tested and declared “healthy”.

Only sick animals are euthanized after capture. The others are released after testing and marking. But for those unfortunate enough to cross the steepest areas inaccessible to humans (so much the better for their peace and quiet!), shooting is once again planned. Unacceptable.

… orchestrated earlier and earlier in the name of economic interests

When will this relentlessness cease? They are already being poached by hunters and their species is, let’s not forget, protected. Why not let them live in peace? It’s all to protect the economic interests of the cheese industry!

Make farmers responsible, when this disease comes from the animals they exploit? Out of the question. As always, it’s easy to blame nature in general and wildlife in particular, rather than reconsidering one’s practices!

The icing on the cake is that these indiscriminate culls will take place between April 15 and June 15, right during the nesting season of bearded vultures, which are majestic birds of the mountains, who are struggling to survive… Not content with going after the ibexes, the government services will be greatly harming their peace and quiet at a crucial time: their reproduction.

To reject this decree, write to ddt-consultations-publiques@haute-savoie.gouv.fr before April 4, listing your arguments in your reply.

For animals unjustly classified as ESOD, the decisive hour at the Council of State approaches!

For animals unjustly classified as ESOD, the decisive hour at the Council of State approaches!

For animals unjustly classified as ESOD, the decisive hour at the Council of State approaches!
27.03.2025
France
For animals unjustly classified as ESOD, the decisive hour at the Council of State approaches!
Wildlife

In 2023, the French Ministry of Ecological Transition published a decree designating one of the lists of “species likely to cause damage” (ESOD). Valid for three years, this text condemns to death millions of animals unjustly considered undesirable by the State. To ensure that the voices of these victims of constant harassment are heard, One Voice has called for the decree to be annulled. Hearing on March 31 at 2:00 pm at the Council of State.

“ESOD”: for the State, kill them at all costs

Foxes, martens, weasels, stone martens, carrion crows, rooks, common magpies, starlings and Eurasian jays… Considered group 2 “ESOD”, these animals are the victims of constant harassment. And this despite the fact that they are already the target of often illegal administrative drives and hunting, including underground hunting for foxes and their young.

By classifying these species for three years, the ministerial decree of August 4, 2023 organizes their massacre. Traps are in overdrive -killing and maiming even domestic animals– and bullets are raining down, even outside the hunting season. Rather than learning to live with these sensitive, intelligent creatures, the State is once again adopting the logic of the hunters by choosing violence. 

Before the highest administrative court: obtain as many declassifications as possible

Because this arbitrary classification will lead to millions of deaths and is not based on any scientific logic, we took to court as soon as the decree was published, without obtaining its suspension. The judges considered that, these animals being classified as ESOD, an emergency intervention was not justified…

After months of proceedings and national mobilization, we will be present at the Council of State for the hearing on the merits on March 31 at 2:00 pm to defend these species, department by department. This is an essential step if we are to save lives and avoid their classification in the next triennial decree. 

In the meantime, sign our petitions for the removal of foxes from the ESOD list and for a radical reform of hunting!

In less than two months, 428 projects validated: 1,659,056 animals condemned, thousands trepaned

In less than two months, 428 projects validated: 1,659,056 animals condemned, thousands trepaned

In less than two months, 428 projects validated: 1,659,056 animals condemned, thousands trepaned
26.03.2025
France
In less than two months, 428 projects validated: 1,659,056 animals condemned, thousands trepaned
Animal testing

Since the beginning of the year, the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR) has not done things by halves. Between January 1 and February 21, 2025, no fewer than 428 projects were authorized and 1,659,056 animals condemned to undergo all sorts of painful experiments before losing their “usefulness” and being put to death.

Beyond the numbers lie the macabre fates of individuals…

Today, One Voice reveals in particular the fate reserved for primates in this series of protocols, and once again asks the authorities for the documents authorizing these tests.

 

Hundreds of open-brained monkeys

Whether studying Parkinson‘s disease or cerebrovascular accidents, the common thread is this: primates are mutilated, their skulls cut open to plug in invasive devices. 

In the chilling technical terms of a project summary, the monkeys undergo trepanning and “implantation of a head-restraining device and recording chamber via titanium screws surgically implanted on the head”. In short: a drill bit is inserted into their head, to the brain. Then a metal tube is attached to it, with a window sealed by a cap before “use”. During testing, the cap is removed and electrodes are inserted directly into the heart of the organ. 

Not to mention the pain, these experiments can cause infections (as we’ve seen at NeuroSpin), lead to fluid accumulation, damage the protective layer of the encephalon or, worst of all, deliberately cause irreparable damage!

For hours on end, according to a second protocol just as disconnected from the tortures endured, they are subjected to a series of interventions: “Animals that pass the training will then have a second cranial surgery under general anesthesia to implant the recording chambers or multielectrode arrays”. A grim reward indeed…

Of these 596 monkeys, 252 will be reused in other experiments or returned to breeding farms. As for those deemed too “damaged” by the procedures, they will simply be put to death. Their ordeal will end, once again, not out of compassion, but because they are no longer “usable”.

Hundreds of thousands of animals under the labs’ scalpel

Unfortunately, these 596 primates are only a tiny fraction of the victims… Alongside them, 1,624,660 domestic animals will also suffer the scalpel blows of their executioners:

We will continue to ask the Ministry for access to project application files in order to verify their conformity and the rigor of their evaluation. With the aim of increasing transparency, we will not stop denouncing these cruel tests and demanding a reduction in the number of animals used.

If, like three quarters of French people, you support the end of animal testing (One Voice/Ipsos April 2023), join us in calling for an end to these barbaric methods!

Let’s save the pair of wolves on the Millevaches plateau!

Let’s save the pair of wolves on the Millevaches plateau!

Let’s save the pair of wolves on the Millevaches plateau!
12.03.2025
Corrèze
Let’s save the pair of wolves on the Millevaches plateau!
Wildlife

In a climate of misinformation and latent incompetence on the part of State services, the only two wolves on the Millevaches plateau are in danger of being killed. While they are ready to form a family from an exceptional genetic mix, the public authorities are only responding to the hatred of breeders by shooting at wolves. Let’s save these wolves from imminent death! 

Two united wolves plagued by gunfire and government inaction

In early March and every night since, the wolf pair on the Millevaches plateau has been surrounded by gunfire. Yet no “damage” has been caused to the herds since November 2024…

This exceptional pair, which has been closely monitored by naturalists since last summer, brings together a male of German-Polish origin and a female who may be Italian-Alpine, or even the result of a mix between two lineages. Their union will give birth to a cub resulting from a genetic crossing between two different lines. This unprecedented reproduction in France could revive the lupine population in the long term. This is excellent news, at a time when permits to kill wolves are piling up and Europe has shamefully chosen to downgrade them

As usual, the French government sides with the breeders, claiming that there is no pack on the plateau. Even though the photos show the two wolves together as a family. This over-the-top propaganda fuels the lies spread eagerly by the extremist unions. Their only wish is to have the canines killed. It was a close call for the male last summer: he was seriously wounded by a shot, preventing him from feeding for months. Furious at having missed their “target”, the lieutenants of louveterie and pests are waiting for just one thing: to annihilate him. 

Will hatred and misinformation get the better of biodiversity?

Who remains deaf and blind in the face of nature’s feats and the intrinsic value of the beings that inhabit it? The Coordination rurale de Haute-Vienne… well, there they are again!

The union claims that the wolf, of German-Polish origin, was introduced by humans, and accuses the regional nature park and the French Biodiversity Agency. That’s nonsense! For the record, the animals of this lineage have been detected in several parts of France since 2017. It’s typical of these animals to spread throughout the country when they’re not prevented from doing so. Before casting aspersions, it might be a good idea to do some research, don’t you think? 

Once again, breeders are crying scandal where there is none, preferring to reaffirm their devastating will against nature rather than take their responsibilities to truly act and protect their flocks. Because no, shooting wolves won’t necessarily reduce the risks. The only solution is to live together, as has long been scientifically proven. 

Between the open incompetence of government departments and the calls to kill from their detractors, the wolves are facing imminent death.

We are contacting the prefect to bring him to account.

On Wednesday March 19 from 10am to 12pm, we’ll be in front of the Tulle prefecture to defend this couple. Join us!

If you can’t be there, you can sign the petition to demand peace for them.

Europe won over to the lobbies, wolves pay the price

Europe won over to the lobbies, wolves pay the price

Europe won over to the lobbies, wolves pay the price
06.03.2025
Europe Europe won over to the lobbies, wolves pay the price
Wildlife

March 6, 2025 will forever be a terrible day for biodiversity. Wolves have officially been downgraded in the Bern Convention, because Europe has submitted itself to lobbies with greedy and destructive wishes. But the fight for wolves and ecosystems has only just begun, and we will be, as we have always been, at the forefront of their defense. 

A dark period for wolves and biodiversity as a whole…

March 6, 2025. That’s it, Europe went straight for disaster, biodiversity head first. Wolves have been downgraded in the Bern Convention. The European Commission had to wait until this date to propose its adaptation of the Habitats Directive accordingly. This will make them even more of a target for those who want them dead at any price

Who has been rubbing their hands for weeks now, torpedoing years of wildlife protection efforts? Breeders, hunters and the public decision-makers under their thumb. 

During an exchange between the Parliament and the Commission, MEP Valérie Deloge applauded the Commission’s decision and asserted the need to “reaffirm the primacy of agriculture and livestock farming over the ideology of rewilding, because without our breeders, there will be no more European food sovereignty.”

As for Lozère senator Guylène Pantel, she’s not ashamed to claim that if one animal is slaughtered, that’s one less animal on the territory.”

Are these two lobbies fanatics not aware that, without wolves, there would be no viable ecosystems? They are ignoring science and the opinion of 86% of French people, who consider that these animals have their rightful place in nature.

Wolves are no longer strictly protected in Europe, sold out to the lobbies of leisure hunting and insatiable intensive agriculture. How far will the puppets of the European Commission go, doing their bidding and selling off our infinitely precious and fragile heritage? When will we see courageous politicians standing up to defend it and put a stop to a cowardice that is as destructive as it is disgusting?” Muriel Arnal President of One Voice

… but the fight for the cubs goes on!

Downgrading is coming into force in the Bern Convention, and certainly very soon in the European Union, but our warnings have not gone unheeded: our joint request for the European wolf cubs before the European Court of Justice has been accepted

We have long been ready for this long obstacle course and will not abandon these wonderful animals, thanks to a colossal inter-associative commitment

In Europe, as in France, we are ready to take legal action whenever wolves are harmed: from their scientifically unfounded downgrading, to the relaxation of conditions for killing wolves, to shooting orders with no legal basis, the list goes on and on, but we are relentless in our fight against these cruel and unfounded decisions. 

To support wolves and stop their persecution, sign our petition

No to the beheading of animals at the Lesmont festival!

No to the beheading of animals at the Lesmont festival!

No to the beheading of animals at the Lesmont festival!
26.02.2025
Aube
No to the beheading of animals at the Lesmont festival!
Exploitation for shows

We have been informed by a whistle-blower of the annual goose neck “game” at the Lesmont festival in the Aube region. While the 2025 program has yet to be unveiled, we call on the village to abandon this tradition, which is cruel to animals and deleterious to spectators -including minors- who are encouraged to cheer for the worst violence.

It’s not just in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region that geese, hens, ducks and rabbits are killed before having their bodies decapitated to “entertain” the gallery. In 2015, the Lesmont patron saint’s festival, in the Grand-Est region, saw fit to conclude its festive weekend with bloodshed. What better way to end on a high note than to blindfold yourself and slit the throat of an animal put to death for the occasion? In 2024, although the event was renamed Lesmont’s Festival in 2017, nothing had changed: the “goose neck” was still on the program, slipped discreetly between two concerts.

Festivities marred by barbarism

Under the pretext of tradition, we should continue, year after year, to mutilate corpses? Even if it means inculcating in young people, whether they are encouraged to applaud or participate, that the lives of animals have no value, and that empathy is a quality they must discard? The perfect recipe for making our society even more violent…

We will never cease to denounce this practice, as we did in Beaux, in the Haute-Loire region, and then in Arfeuilles, in the Allier region. At the end of summer 2023, our investigative images of the Saint-Bonnet-Près-Riom patron saint’s festival, together with our complaint against the organizers, led to its cancellation in the village in 2024. We call on the Lesmont events committee to abandon this morbid custom too.

For the geese, rabbits, chickens and ducks targeted every year, sign our petition to demand the abolition of this practice throughout France.

Illustration photo from our images at Saint-Bonnet-Près-Riom in 2023

Suspicious death of the wounded wolf in the Saône-et-Loire region? We request a copy of the autopsy report

Suspicious death of the wounded wolf in the Saône-et-Loire region? We request a copy of the autopsy report

Suspicious death of the wounded wolf in the Saône-et-Loire region? We request a copy of the autopsy report
26.02.2025
Saône-et-Loire
Suspicious death of the wounded wolf in the Saône-et-Loire region? We request a copy of the autopsy report
Wildlife

On Sunday February 16, the crippled wolf that had been the target of a relentless attack in the Saône-et-Loire region for over a year was found lifeless. On Monday, the Chalon-sur-Saône public prosecutor’s office announced the opening of an investigation into the wolf’s death. Why? Did the autopsy reveal a possible act of poaching? We have requested access to it. And we’re filing a complaint against a person unknown.

He was the last wolf in the department. Since he was wounded in the leg in December 2023, he had survived with difficulty, still a victim of the obsession of breeders and authorities determined to finish him off. Our proposal to the prefecture to take him in had gone unheeded… In its view, it was clearly better to wait for him to die, one way or another. In mid-February, its wishes were granted.

But the story doesn’t end there. Yesterday, the Chalon-sur-Saône public prosecutor’s office announced the opening of an investigation into the wolf’s death. Why are the courts taking up the case? Has the autopsy revealed that it was not a natural death? Was the wolf shot illegally? Or worse, had he been cowardly poisoned, like others before him?

Wherever wolves are endangered, we counterattack

In the Alpes-Maritimes region, too, the authorities are stubborn. So much so, in fact, that they are extending the reinforced defense shootings, without carrying out any new examination of the situation. We have, of course, called for these measures to be suspended as a matter of urgency

Nurtured by the powerful livestock and hunting lobbies, hostility to wolves is such that the European Commission has not hesitated to call for an accelerated adoption of the proposal to downgrade these animals. A lethal measure at a time when wolf populations remain fragile, and for which there is no scientific justification. We immediately made an inter-associative request, which was accepted. With our partners, we are now taking our arguments to the European Court of Justice. And we’re launching the European Action Wolves campaign to amplify the voice of wolf defenders throughout Europe.

Join the mobilization by signing our petition to put an end to the persecution of wolves.

Our joint request on behalf of wolves to the European Court of Justice was accepted!

Our joint request on behalf of wolves to the European Court of Justice was accepted!

Our joint request on behalf of wolves to the European Court of Justice was accepted!
19.02.2025
Europe
Our joint request on behalf of wolves to the European Court of Justice was accepted!
Wildlife

Our inter-association request to the European Court of Justice has taken one step further: it has been accepted! With our four partners, we look forward to defending our arguments before the Court, so that Europe’s wolves can live in peace. 

Now the fight for Europe’s wolf cubs has taken a new turn: our request, filed in December 2024 with four other European associations before the Court of Justice of the European Union, has begun. 

When the European Union forgets about science to the detriment of wolves…

Too prompt to harm wolves, the Council of the European Union (EU) had underestimated internationally important reports and calls from the scientific community indicating that their population in Europe was not immune to significant risks. 

As it happens, the lack of scientific basis for the downgrading of canids was also highlighted in a recent scientific report on the ecology and genetics of large carnivores, funded by the EU. 

The European Union, caught in its own trap: what’s the point of requesting scientific reports only to end up not following them and not relying on the best available science? And then disregard the principles of proportionality and precaution, which are necessary for derogations under the species protection system? 

…we fight back and are heard by the courts!

Along with our partners, we are delighted to see that our arguments have been heard by the European Court of Justice. What satisfaction to have the opportunity to defend our request against the downgrading of wolves before the EU Court! 

The legal work essential for this request was made possible thanks to the Gallifrey Foundation, which donated the funding for the legal costs, and to the work of the team at the Luca d’Agostino law firm

We invite you to join us in joining forces: if you are a non-profit organization registered in the European Union, you can write to the following address: wolveseuropeancourtcase@greenimpact.it 

Sign our petition to put an end to the persecution of wolves orchestrated by politicians.