The ban on shows of wild animals in traveling circuses and the reproduction of dolphins, announced by Barbara Pompili, can be applied by regulation without necessarily going through a law, assured the Ministry of Ecological Transition on Friday, October 9.
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The absence of a vote in the Assembly of the bill of the former LREM Cédric Villani (EDS group) "
does not change anything
" to the minister's announcements, the ministry said, stressing that consultations had started with the professionals concerned to prepare the application texts.
Barbara Pompili announced at the end of September the end of wild animal shows in traveling circuses in the coming years, the ban on the reproduction of killer whales and dolphins in dolphinariums and the closure "
under five years
" of mink farms for fur.
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Cédric Villani's bill against animal abuse which included these elements was to be voted on Thursday evening in the National Assembly, redacted by the majority of measures against hunting with hounds or intensive breeding.
But the deputies deprived of time by long exchanges on a first text on the menu of the hemicycle on Thursday, never went until the vote.
"
Caricatures and a flash debate for a complex subject that touches our relationship with the living
", regretted Friday on Twitter Cédric Villani.
"
I hope the government will keep its promise and resume our proposals and the results of our work as quickly as possible!"
", he added.