One year has passed since Femke’s euthanasia, having been kept at Parc Astérix since 2008. However, our questions concerning the circumstances of her death remain unanswered to this day.
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Default victory for turtledoves against the Ministry of the Ecological Transition
The order allowing turtledove hunting during the 2020-2021 season has been cancelled on 30 December as a result of our appeals.
We will never say yes to televised rodeo in France !
Animals in rodeos are not ‘artists’ but terrified puppets that are subjected to suffering before reaching the abbatoir.
Unpublished investigation: deer farming and culling in France. No respite for wild animals
From deer breeding to slaughter. An unpublished investigation.
MarineLand, Canada, Kiska thrashing …
We filmed Kiska at MarineLand Canada in October 2021 doing violent back and forth movements from left to right near the glass at the shallow end of the pool.
She struggles in the water, displacing large amounts of water.
Dumba still needs us!
Our investigators returned to Germany to see how Dumba is doing. Even though her life is no longer hellish, it’s also far from being heavenly.
The other MarineLand : an orca in isolation and belugas crammed in…
One Voice has revealed images from MarineLand Canada taken just before the closure of the dolphinarium and an expert’s report.
Moana, a young orca in a pitiful state of health at Marineland in Antibes
Moana is dying a slow death in filthy water at Marineland in Antibes. We are filing a complaint against the dolphinarium.
Monkeys destined for US labs die on board Wamos Air flight
In recent months, animal protection groups Action for Primates (UK), One Voice (France) and Stop Camarles (Spain), have spearheaded a campaign across Europe calling on Wamos Air to stop transporting monkeys
At the Nouveau Cirque Triomphe, lions breed instead of being sent to a sanctuary…
At the Nouveau Cirque Triomphe, lions breed instead of being sent to a sanctuary…
At the Nouveau Cirque Triomphe, lions breed instead of being sent to a sanctuary…
04.11.2021
At the Nouveau Cirque Triomphe, lions breed instead of being sent to a sanctuary…
Circuses
Since June 22, 2021, the Nouveau Cirque Triomphe has been forbidden to keep any feline. And yet, at the beginning of October in Jons, our investigators filmed a mating between a lion and a lioness. This shows the extent to which circus performers, and Joseph Gougeon in particular, cousin of the circus performers from Cirque de Paris, Italiano and Idéal, ignore official orders and do as they please all the time. Breeding is actually happening in this circus and it’s not its first criminal act: last year alone, it sold a lion to a taxidermist in Paris, and holds a lion with the same identification number as Jon, even though he had been seized from the Cirque de Paris several months earlier! We’re stepping up our administrative procedures.
If our representatives think that by allowing breeding to continue for another two years, they are making compromises and allowing circus performers to “adapt”, what they are really doing is allowing the trade in big cats to continue! Circus performers already benefit from compromises, conscientiously ignoring the regulations that apply to their trade.
Tougher proceedings against a circus that continues to trample on the rules
After our investigators discovered in October that the circus was indeed keeping four lions, despite the partial closure order, we filed an additional complaint (for carrying on an activity in violation of a closure order).
We also wrote to the Rhône DDPP, the department of the prefecture responsible for captive wild animals on its territory, requesting written proof of the death of the lion, who died on February 16, 2021 and was sent to the Parisian taxidermist.
As part of our appeal to the administrative court in June 2021, the prefecture has initiated a procedure to have the lions placed in a suitable structure, but if Gougeon has appealed as it is said, he could keep them in the meantime, as long as they are not presented in a show… Yet the prefectoral decree has not been challenged in the administrative court by the circus.
In any case, we have reinforced our appeal with a supplementary brief for these lions. And since the Rhône DDPP says that the National advisory commission for captive wildlife is due to meet and rule on Gougeon’s application for a competency certificate, we’ve written to the Commission. It’s mind-boggling! We wouldn’t allow a quarter of what circus performers dare to do to any other citizen. We demand to be heard on the serious and numerous failures and unwillingness of the trainer to comply with the regulations.
These lions and lionesses must be entrusted to us!
These animals are being mistreated and kept in absolutely abject conditions. This circus should no longer keep felines! But what we filmed a few weeks ago in October were animals in the process of reproducing. So there are going to be more babies?! Who are once again going to feed the traffic… This is all very lucrative for the circus, but totally illegal and scandalous. Muriel Arnal President of One Voice
Following these new elements, we are writing another letter to the prefect, this time to ask him to seize the animals and entrust them to us. Sign the Brindas residents’ petition, already supported by over 20,000 people.