Hunting
Hunting, a deadly problem
Hunting is a pastime practised solely for human pleasure. Every year, in the name of “traditions” and despite the collapse in biodiversity, hunters inflict unbearable suffering on animals in a variety of ways: stalking in enclosures, hunting with hounds, digging up badgers and foxes, trapping…
One Voice has been opposing this for years. To change mentalities, our association is putting all its energy into the battle, whether through ultra-risky undercover investigations to denounce these practices or legal action to bring the voice of animals before the courts and ensure that their rights are respected.
Why are we fighting hunting?
The urgent need to deconstruct propaganda
Hunters claim to be the “guardians of biodiversity” of wild fauna. One Voice is constantly working to dismantle this propaganda. A quarter of the animals hunted, including pheasants, partridges, ducks and rabbits, are reared behind bars before being released to die by bullets.
The reality of hunting is also fenced-in woodlands rented out to stalk deer, wild boar and roe deer that will never get away with it, novices training alone at home to handle weapons, walkers who no longer dare to go out into the countryside…
A hobby that also kills humans and our companions
This human “pastime”, which is predominantly male, is fatally damaging to forest animals. But the fate of the dogs and horses used during stalking is hardly any better. Dogs are seen as interchangeable tools, used to exhaustion. They too fall victim to stray bullets.
The reasons for the fight: to ensure respect for living things
Since 2021, One Voice has obtained the cancellation by the Council of State of traditional methods of hunting birds, such as glue hunting. In 2023, our victories in the courts have saved thousands of badgers from being dug up and more than 1,000 mountain galliforms, endangered birds that are still in the hunters’ sights.
These victories are just the first step in the fight for the outright abolition of these hunting methods, which are no longer justified. The wild animals that inhabit our countryside and forests aspire to live in peace. Everywhere they are disappearing, irretrievably. Nature is in danger everywhere. Everywhere, including in rural areas, the majority of French people are opposed to hunting. We are determined to protect these territories, which are also ours. And to ensure that living things are respected.
Key figures
An alarming fact
Our proposals
- Independence of the hunting police.
- Hunting of species in a poor state of conservation is prohibited.
- Hunting prohibited during the breeding season.
- Ban on killing traps.
- End of so-called "traditional" hunting (glue, lecques, lakes, pantes, tendelles, etc.).
- Abolition of underground hunting for all species.
- Abolition of hunting at hounds for all species.
- Abolition of hunting in protected areas (national parks, nature reserves, biological reserves), closed enclosures and parks, and hunting farms.
- Two days a week without hunting or trapping (including Sundays) and all school holidays.
- Compulsory annual medical check-up for hunting licences, including an eye test.
- Ban on breeding animals for hunting.
History
Nearly 30 years of fighting and winning against hunting
June 2021
The Conseil d'État confirms the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union, which One Voice appealed to: hunting with glue is now illegal in France.
April 2021
Little known, hunting in enclosures leaves wild animals no chance of survival. Our investigators have infiltrated hunts and our images have been broadcast by numerous media, including 24-hour news channels and the public service. Our team also gathered information and published an interactive map listing hunting parks in France. As a result of our investigations, three bills have now been tabled by MPs to ban hunting in enclosures.
September 2020
We are challenging the ministerial order setting a quota of 17,460 turtle doves to be shot for the 2020-2021 season. On 11 September, the Conseil d'État ruled in our favour and suspended the order.
June 2020
Alongside five associations, we are calling on the Ministry of Ecological Transition to ban the underground hunting of badgers.
May 2020
We are publishing images of our infiltration into the world of underground venery and revealing the particularly violent practices used to slaughter badgers and foxes. We launched the hashtags #Jaimelesrenards, #Jaimelesblaireaux and a dedicated website to denounce this cruel practice, call for a change in the legal status of foxes and for strict protection of badgers in France, effectively banning their hunting. Through this investigation, we are also denouncing the pollution and lack of respect for the environment caused by digging up badgers, as well as the fate of the dogs used to track the animals in the burrows. Following the lodging of an administrative appeal, the Jura prefecture has cancelled the additional period for underground badger hunting.
May 2019
Now that the Ministry has authorised the draft decree on digging up animals, One Voice is mobilising to call for the cruel practice of underground hunting, which concerns badgers, coypu and foxes, to be banned once and for all in France.
2014
One Voice's investigators are carrying out an investigation into the canned hunting of lions in South Africa.
2013
An investigation by One Voice into hunting training camps in Russia reveals the use of wild animals to test dogs.
2010
Revelations after three years of infiltration into the world of hunting with hounds: One Voice's ground-breaking investigation reveals the cruelty of this practice and its failure to comply with regulations.
1998
One Voice/Talis is carrying out a number of actions alongside ASPAS, denouncing the link between hunters and political elections. This will enable the leader of Chasse pêche nature traditions to be indicted.
