After a first letter addressed to the prefecture of Oise - which provided for the slaughter of thousands of foxes - Brigitte Bardot now alerts the prefecture of Var on the danger that the opening of hunting would cause in the department still "in flames" , and thus calls for a “white year”.
In the grip of violent fires which have already killed two people, the Var must see the opening of the hunting season on September 12.
However "the natural habitat of the animals is destroyed, those who were not trapped in the flames will be numerous to perish for lack of food", insists the defender of the animals, in a letter dated August 20 and published on her twitter account.
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Faced with this ecological disaster, we must not add another disaster, I call on @ Prefet83 to declare a white year of hunting!
Nature needs to breathe and animals need a truce, this mad race towards destruction must be stopped.
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- BRIGITTE BARDOT (@brigitte_bardot) August 20, 2021
“It would be criminal, absolutely cowardly, to allow hunters to track down and kill the survivors of this tragedy.
I ask you today to take the necessary measures to postpone the opening of hunting in the Var ", she wrote, calling for the establishment of a" white year ".
"It's a matter of common sense, nature needs to breathe and animals need a truce, we must stop this mad race towards destruction," she said.
More than 7,000 hectares burned, an ecosystem under threat
Since Monday, fires have covered 8,100 hectares and burned 7,100 hectares of forest, vines and scrubland, devastating in particular nearly half of the Plaine des Maures National Nature Reserve, a haven of biodiversity, north of Toulon.
A disaster that greatly affects the ecosystem of the region. Asked about RTL, Jean-Louis Pestour, national forest fires manager at the National Forestry Office, believes that "it will take a long time before the entire sector becomes green again". It will take "between 30 and 40 years before finding the same ecosystem," he said.