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A. Gelebart / 20 Minutes
Can we have an exemption for hunting during confinement?
On November 6, the prefecture of the Tarn department replied in the affirmative by issuing an exemption order "for the regulatory hunting of animal species likely to cause damage to agricultural and forestry production".
To justify this choice, she indicated that “the regulation of the populations of a certain number of these species each year ensures future agricultural harvests and the survival of young forest plantations.
The absence of withdrawals would inevitably cause the uncontrolled increase of these populations and would present a risk of explosion of their damage ”.
Specific species had been listed, such as roe deer, fallow deer or even black crow or nutria.
Arguments that had not brought to the association for the protection of wild animals which had quickly filed an appeal in summary before the administrative court of Toulouse.
The latter has just given reason to the activists of the animal cause by suspending the execution of the said decree.
In his decision, the summary judge noted a procedural error but also that "the general interest in authorizing the hunting of fallow deer and mouflon, which are in particularly small numbers in the Tarn and whose damage or proliferation has not not been demonstrated, was not established ”, indicates a press release from the Toulouse administrative court.
"Similarly, the wood pigeon (or wood pigeon) is not likely to cause, at this time of year, significant damage to seedlings or crops ...", he adds.
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