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