The Toulon Tribunal’s deliberation on the case of the bird poacher was given yesterday, 27 February 2023. They agreed with One Voice.
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Persecution of captive wild animals sanctioned by the State Council
One Voice has obtained a partial cancellation of the 29 March 2021 decree setting the general rules for keeping non-domestic animal species.
The Bargy ibex killed in 2019: the legal system rules in One Voice’s favour at the appeal
The Haute-Savoie Prefectural decree of 2019 authorising the slaughter of ibex in Bargy, challenged by One Voice, has been cancelled.
Nouveau Cirque Triomphe’s sleight of hand tricks partly condemned by the legal system
Stéphane Gougeon, a trainer from the Nouveau Cirque Triomphe, convicted in the case of Tarzan the lion; the taxidermist’s case has been closed without any further action.
We are seeking justice for the robins and Eurasian blackcaps being poached. The hearing is on 27 February in Toulon
One Voice is giving a voice to robins and warblers that are being poached at the Toulon Legal Tribunal on 27 February.
February 2023: new figures on animal testing have been published. Yet more animals and more suffering.
Two million animals and more painful experiments: One Voice analyses the 2021 figures on animal testing.
After foxes being hung… foxes stuffed?
The body of a fox that most likely has been stuffed has been exhibited for passers-by to see at the edge of a road in a village in Aisne
One Voice is taking to the streets to call for a true plan to make hunting safe and for a radical reform
In February, One Voice will be raising awareness among the public in fifteen towns in France at the end of this hunting season.
Jumbo in his skip, tigers in a lorry… The Muller/Zavatta Circus is setting up in Cannes
One Voice has learnt of the set-up of the Muller/Zavatta Circus in Cannes. The town council has banned them from exhibiting animals in shows. Fifteen days in a lorry: does absence make the heart grow fonder? Nothing is less certain, since in reality this contravenes the law that requires non-domestic animals to be taken out of the lorry for several hours a day AND participate in the show. In any case, it does not change anything for Jumbo or for the lions or tigers… We are writing to David Lisnard, the mayor of Cannes.
Banned for thirty years, leghold traps have found a new victim: Cooper.
Banned for thirty years, leghold traps have found a new victim: Cooper.
Banned for thirty years, leghold traps have found a new victim: Cooper.
10.02.2023
Banned for thirty years, leghold traps have found a new victim: Cooper.
Domestic animals
On 23 January, Cooper was found injured. The border collie had his front right leg stuck in a leghold trap. These non-selective hunting devices have actually been banned in Europe since 1995. It is unbearable that almost thirty years later, animals continue to be victims of them. One Voice is filing a complaint for him.
This Monday could have been a day like any other for this five-year-old dog. But instead of returning to enjoy a nap on the porch of his house after his morning walk, Cooper found himself imprisoned in a leghold trap hidden among some straw after the deadly trap abruptly closed around his front leg. It was the police who discovered him like this, injured and immobilised, and let his owner know. He was taken to the vets urgently with an exposed joint and a torn tendon and had to be sedated while his wounds were sutured. When he left the next day, he had five days of medication to take!
Although Cooper was found and treated in time, you can hardly imagine the terror and pain he had to endure while he was kept prisoner. And all this for what? Because of traps mutilating and killing animals without discrimination, despite being banned in the whole of the European Union since 1995! What was this trap doing there? What’s more, it was placed near a path where a walker could have gone. As well as being illegal and dangerous for all animals, both wild and domestic, and humans, laying it shows great cruelty. One Voice is filing a complaint against X following the injuries inflicted on Cooper, and will represent themselves as well as the Sans-Voix d’Eden Association who alerted them to the situation, and Cooper’s family. The two associations have also covered the veterinary costs.
In 2018, One Voice already asked for a ban on these traps that massacre animals without any distinction, whether they are wild, domestic, or protected. It is high time that hunting is radically reformed and that its most cruel practices are banned as a matter of urgency.
Translated from the French by Joely Justice