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Should traditional hunts be banned?

2021-09-17T04:03:50.931Z


DECRYPTION - Their disappearance, approved by the Council of State, has been greeted by many defenders of the environment but has provoked the anger of hunters who denounce a "cultural genocide".


"Victory for biodiversity",

as assured by the League for the protection of birds (LPO) and the animalist association One Voice, or

"cultural genocide"

, as denounced by some hunters? Last June, glue hunting, this so-called "traditional" method, practiced in five departments in the south-east of France (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Alpes-Maritimes, Bouches-du-Rhône, Vaucluse and Var ), was definitively deemed illegal and

“contrary to European law and the European“ birds ”directive of December 2009

by the Council of State, seized by the LPO and One Voice.

In August, the highest administrative authority also pronounced the annulment of a decree of the Ministry of Ecological Transition, so far authorizing the capture of a certain number of species of birds by means of pantes (long horizontal nets stretched out in the open fields), matoles (cages placed at ground level), as well as the tenderie (which uses kinds of strangling laces), to which the government

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Source: lefigaro

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