September 28th 2016
The French are fed up with hunting. The survey* conducted by One Voice in partnership with ASPAS has just recently shown that 78% of French people want to ban hunting on Sundays for obvious safety reasons. 91% of French people want a hunting reform.
Yet the public authorities are strangely deaf to this strong expectation of our fellow citizens. And our politicians even more.
Laurent Wauquiez, President of the “Republicans” of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, has just offered some 3 million euros to hunters in its region to restore their hunting huts or to intervene in our schools to “train” our children in a certain idea of biodiversity…
The President of the Republic has killed it in the bud the long-awaited National Agency for Biodiversity, by not including in it the National Office of Hunting and Wildlife. This public establishment and its 1200 officials remain in the hands of the hunters who are in the majority on its board of directors.
To denounce this, but also the death of 30 million animals each year for a “Past Time” from another age, the Collective of September 21st which brings together 78 associations (joined by Sea Shepherd, the Foundation Brigitte Bardot and One Voice), organizes a large demonstration to end hunting and trapping.
October 1st from 10 am to 1 pm, Place Joachim-du-Bellay (Paris 1st)
Numerous association stands and catering on site
After the demonstration a Kate Amiguet’s film, Hunter- killer - imposter?
will be screened at the Jean Dame cinema at 2:30 p.m. (entrance at 2:00 p.m.)
It will be followed by a debate with the director, Gérard Charollois (president of the CVN, author of the book On Ending the Hunt) and Pierre Athanaze (president of Action Nature, author of the Black Book of Hunting).
List of associations from the collective of September 21st:
269 LIFE FRANCE, Acta Anti speciesism (or Acta Gironde), Embassy for Pigeons, Action Nature Rewilding France, AEC, Animal Cross, AEP, Animalsace, Animalibre, APIE (Environmental Protection and Initiation Association), Association of the Animal Collective of 06, Association Protection of Château de Flée, AVES France, AVF (Association Vegetarian of France), AVRE, Bio Living in Brie, Brouillard Définitif, CAUSA, C'est Assez, C'Topoil, CCE2A (Collective Against Animal Experimentation and Exploitation), CHAMADE (Animal Theaters and Mediation), C.H.A.N.T (for Harmonious Cohabitation with other Animals and Nature on Earth), CNPA (Collective Nantais For the Animals), Collectif Société Anti-Fourrure, Combactive, CHÂTEAU de FLÉE, Monument historique, C.RÉ.DO. Pigeons et Protection Animale, CREL (Recognition and Self Help Club with Greyhounds), CVAAD, CVN (Convention Life and Nature), DDA (Animal Rights), Droit des Animaux Sud, Dignité Animale, Entre Chiens et Loups, Groupe d'Actions Animales Moselle, Guadeloupe Animaux, F.G.N. (fairy gardians of nature), GREEN, Humanimo, INFO VÉGANE, Initiatives Terre, Jack et Jessie Protection Animale, la fondation M.A.R.T. (Movement for the animals and respect of the land), La Griffe, La Voie de l'Hirondelle, La Tribu de Sapeur, L'arche de Valudo, Le Klan du Loup, Les Désobéissants, L214, Laissons Leur Peau Aux Animaux (LLPAA), Les compagnons de Freya, Ligue Universelle pour la Nature et les Animaux, Les 3A, Les Crins Verts, Liberté Égalité Animale 49, Matoucœur, MFP (French mission for the protection of monkeys), Mouvement pour la Cause Animale, Oïkos Kaï Bios, Oiseaux Nature, Patacha, Point Info Loup Lynx, RAC (RAssemblement pour une France sans Chasse), Protection Faune Sauvage Sedan, RAN (Respect of animals and for Nature), Respectons, Initiatives Terre, Refuge "Ame'Ni'Maux", Refuge « Amis des Bêtes », Sauvetage et Chats en Détresse, Secourisme Animalier, SSA49, SVPA (Société Vosgienne de Protection Animale), Stop Souffrances Animales 49, Vigilance Citoyenne pour le Pâtis, Wolf Eyes Asbl.
