ProtectionBrigitte Bardot was tried on Thursday in her absence by the Arras court for public insult to the hunters and their boss Willy Schraen, treated privately as ‘subhuman’, comments capable of inciting hatred, they argue.
May 28, 2021
ProtectionSunday, September 12, will mark the opening of the marmot hunt for the department of Alpes-Maritimes, for a period of two months. Loïc Dombreval, deputy animal welfare activist, condemns and calls for a ban on this little-known but very legal practice.
September 2, 2021
ProtectionSunday, September 3, at 2 pm, the C’estough! and L214 organize a rally at Trocadéro in Paris to protest the annual slaughter of dolphins in Taiji Bay off the coast of Japan.
September 1, 2017
ProtectionThe day after the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Congress, where he heartily declared his determination to face the challenges of protecting biodiversity, Emmanuel Macron prepares to reauthorize the traditional trapping of more than 115,000 wild birds. .
September 17, 2021
ProtectionOn the 12th and 13th of May, Aspas organizes a symposium on the fox, a species now considered “harmful” in France, so that the general public can get to know this small carnivore better and understand its role in the balance of environments.
May 03, 2017
ProtectionThe death of a deer, last Saturday, shot in the garden of a private property in the Oise, shocked the residents and aroused great emotion in the population, relaunching the debate on the authorization of hunting with dogs in our territory.
October 25, 2017
ProtectionAccording to an IFOP survey for the Brigitte Bardot Foundation, the vast majority of respondents are opposed to hunting, while the entire study reveals a general questioning of hunting.
December 07, 2017
ProtectionAs a new “wolf plan” struggles to be implemented, the Grenoble administrative court has agreed with three animal protection associations, Aspas, Ferus and One Voice, in ruling the successive 2015 killings of three wolves in Savoy illegal.
October 18, 2017
ProtectionThe ministers of Ecology and Agriculture announced that the government’s new “Lobo plan” authorizes the slaughter of 40 animals between July 1, 2017 and June 30, 2018. A decision denounced by canis lupus protection associations that are demanding the establishment of “a real policy of cohabitation between human activities and wolves”.
July 21, 2017
ProtectionUnderground hunting, glue hunting, tendelle… For the 63 parliamentarians from all sides, who gathered in a rostrum with deputy Loic Dombreval, president of the National Assembly’s Animal Condition Study Group, these ‘archaic’ practices have no nothing to do with ‘France after’.
June 09, 2020
ProtectionWhile the new government plans to slaughter up to 40 wolves in France from July 2017 to June 2018, Cap Loup and several personalities are mobilizing to demand a complete review of the management of this species in our territory.
June 19, 2017
ProtectionThe acting judge of the Council of State, urgently apprehended by the defenders of nature (LPO and One Voice), on Monday suspended the new government decrees that authorize traditional hunting of birds.
October 26, 2021
ProtectionWolf defenders expect a lot from the new plan promised by Nicolas Hulot, which should, from January 2018, completely rethink the management of the predator in France to promote coexistence with pastoralism. Meanwhile, the associations fear that the currently authorized 40-wolves slaughter limit will be quickly reached.
September 07, 2017
ProtectionThe next commercial seal season will begin April 10 on Canada’s Atlantic coast. Thousands of young seals will be slaughtered for their pelts, even as trade opportunities dwindle.
April 8, 2016
ProtectionThe ban initially only concerned southern Spain, but that’s it: since yesterday, wolf hunting has become illegal throughout the Iberian Peninsula. A victory for the environmental defense associations, relieved to know that the approximately 2,500 canines will now have a better chance of restoring the species.
September 23, 2021
ProtectionMore than 50 MEPs and about 50 conservation organizations on Sunday urged parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) to ban trophy hunting targeting endangered animals such as rhinos and elephants.
August 19, 2019
ProtectionTwo illegal wild boar feeding sites, a practice at the center of the hunting controversies, have been identified some forty kilometers from Nîmes, and an investigation is under way to find those responsible, the Gard prefecture announced.
April 29, 2021
ProtectionThe Eurasian lynx, an endangered species in France, is the ‘poor relative’ of large predators in terms of conservation, according to its advocates, but a first five-year National Action Plan will see the light of day in 2022.
December 22, 2021
ProtectionSix-year-old Xanda, a descendant of the lion Cecil killed in 2015, was in turn a victim of trophy hunting in Zimbabwe.
July 21, 2017
ProtectionHunters from Ortolan in the Southwest cannot invoke “tradition” to break the law and capture these protected birds, the Court of Cassation ruled on Tuesday.
October 18, 2018