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A wolf formally identified in the Marne: hunters warned

2022-01-14T10:41:41.939Z


A wolf was identified in early January, about twenty kilometers east of Châlons-en-Champagne (Marne). The mayor of Le Fresne, one of


It was a hunter who gave the alert and the photos, the first week of January, immediately supported by information from a game warden: a wolf was observed in the plain about twenty kilometers to the east. from Chalons-en-Champagne (Marne).

The technical service of the Departmental Federation of Hunters immediately moved to the municipalities of Coupéville, Le Fresne and Moivre, to carry out a survey of footprints, droppings and tracks.

The elements were sent to the national Loup-Lynx network (French Office for Biodiversity), which validated the presence of a passing wolf.

“A lone wolf has left his pack and is looking to start a new one”

Jean-Claude Arnould, mayor of Fresne

At Fresne, the mayor, Jean-Claude Arnould, learned the news on social networks.

“I then knew that a few weeks ago, a resident had already found the body of a deer, only the head of which had been damaged.

It is the technique of the wolf, which bites in the throat, as during the attacks of sheep.

His presence may not date from yesterday.

A lone wolf has left his pack and is looking to start a new one.

Are there any others nearby?

Difficult to know, because of the long journey that individuals are ready to make to meet each other.

On the risk side, if there are no sheep farmers directly threatened in the sector, “walkers can be worried.

The wolf has always had a reputation, in old stories, legends... Whether true or false, the inhabitants are hardly reassured at the idea of ​​coming across the animal.

“A rather discreet animal, fortunately, whose observation is rare due in particular to a low density.

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The wolf runs the risk of being considered as a competitor of the hunters. “Apart from the boar, the wolf has no predator. He therefore does not hesitate to take deer and small game, pheasants, hares, partridges, with a lot of waste, while the hunters are subject to quotas. It would be to avoid the predation action of the wolf that a hunter could hypothetically attack it”, underlines Jean-Claude Arnould.

The Marne federation, cautious, thus insists on the “status of protected species of the wolf and the vigilance of rigor.

"The federation assumes that hunters would be ready not to give gifts", opines Jean-Claude Arnould.

“But hunters are not idiots.

We know that the wolf is protected.

And even if some would have the intention, you would have to be alone – because as soon as there are two of you, everything is known, armed, and there is a chance in a million of falling on the animal.

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Last message from the Federation of Hunters of the Marne: any clue must be reported to it (03.26.65.17.85).

Source: leparis

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