Par Raphael Motte
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The foxes and badgersas well as animals such as wild boar, deer, roe deer and fallow deer are covered by the Gard prefecture.
Foxes targeted indefinitely
On February 21, the prefect ordered in particular the lieutenants of louveterie and other sworn agents, to kill or capture them. Foxes are targeted indefinitelyother animals are from February 24 to September 11, 2022i.e. for six months, a period when their hunting is supposed to be prohibited.
One Voice has launched an appeal
L’association One Voice which is not at its first communication blow in order to alert the populations, has therefore filed an appeal and a summary suspension which will be examined at the administrative court of Nîmes on May 3, 2022. A relevant action because, “for years, these same provisions have been renewed for a period of six months, so thatit is no longer really an exceptional measure ordered in order to respond to a problem localized in time and space as provided for in the Environmental Code,” explains the association. These decrees have also sometimes been successfully challenged in other departments.
Pests?
The reasons given by the prefect of Gard to justify these provisions are very concrete: traffic accidents et property damage for some animals, potentially communicable diseases to humans for foxes. But for the association these arguments are refutable. Moreover, according to her, it is only a point of view: “Is it the animals that cross the roads in front of the cars or are it the roads that cross the forest and the cars that violate the living space of animals? “.
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