How Lozère will reopen wolf hunting

2022-10-03T11:20:08.510Z

DECRYPTION - The prefect of Lozère is preparing to authorize a sampling shot on the wolf population. A first, in this department where attacks are increasing and where anger is brewing in the ranks of breeders.

There are now only euphemisms to qualify the question of the wolf in Lozère - to say that the subject is "

explosive

" is still below reality.

The number of farm animals killed by predators has increased exponentially: 180 since the beginning of the year.

The prefecture counted 70 per year, only three years ago.

For the first time, the wolf reproduced elsewhere than in the Alpine arc, notes the French Office for Biodiversity (OFB) - and it was in Lozère.

On Monday, (very) angry breeders gathered in front of the public building where a meeting dedicated to large predators was being held.

They demanded heads.

And this time, they got what they were hoping for: Lozère is officially going wolf hunting again.

Concretely, the prefect of Lozère announced, for the first time in this department, that he would sign an order authorizing the taking of a wolf in the Margeride massif.

The place is not chosen at random …

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Source: lefigaro

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