Their call to demonstrate this Saturday for the protection of the lynx has spread like wildfire. In a few days, two inhabitants of Haut-Rhin received hundreds of requests to join Ma Thur Sauvage, their Facebook group. It was the death of one of these cats, shot in the head by a poacher on January 23, in the heart of the Ballons des Vosges natural park, which convinced Amélie Wucher-Zekkout and Léa Zettl to organize this manifestation.
According to the Foundation 30 million friends, if 21 lynx were reintroduced between 1983 and 1993 in the Vosges, "the species has almost disappeared again since the department has only four or five individuals", including three from the reintroduction program led across the border into German Palatinate.
A national plan in progress
In question, collisions on the road with cars "but also the poaching which has raged, since the 2010s, in the Vosges mountains, in the Jurassian mountains and in the Alps", deplores the association which requests the public authorities to "Take responsibility by strengthening penal repression" against poachers.
The only big cat present in France, the lynx has been the subject of a national action plan since the summer of 2018, which is still being developed. Conservationists hope it will save this endangered species. On the whole territory, there would only remain a hundred individuals.
