• An animal activist posted a video on social media Thursday showing certain waterfowl hunting practices.

  • We can see how the appellants, these domestic ducks who serve as bait, are treated.

  • These images are now worth death threats to its author.

Duck hunting scrutinized.

An animal advocate posted a video on social media Thursday showing certain waterfowl hunting practices.

We can see how the appellants, these domestic ducks who serve as bait, are treated.

Images which are worth today threats of death to its author.

When he travels to film hunting scenes, ornithologist Pierre Rigaux no longer goes unnoticed.

With his association Nos Viventia (We the Living), the man has already denounced other practices of venery, in particular, last year, the massacre of badgers, crushed in large metal clamps.

Legal practices

This time, he tackles the traditions of wild duck hunting in the Bay of Somme.

"The place is emblematic of hut hunting which is practiced all over the French coast," he explains to

20 Minutes

.

In and around the Bay of Somme, there are around 350 huts where thousands of hunters track duck migration almost daily.

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The initial purpose of this video was to show the mistreatment of the callers.

“These ducks are transported loose in a bag and tied on the water with no possibility of resting on the ground.

But the ducks need both to swim and to land in the dry, accuses Pierre Rigaux.

Sometimes they are even placed in tiny individual cages on wire mesh floors, hung from a stake for the night.

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All these practices are legal, but for Pierre Rigaux, they are from another time.

"We ask the Ministry of Ecology to put an end to it because it reveals a form of animal abuse and, ecologically, this type of hunting is harmful because the wild duck population is rather in decline", he assures. .

"I do not denounce individuals, but practices"

But the images also show other even more worrying practices: the threats and intimidation attempts against the ornithologist and a friend during the filming, between August 20 and 30.

“However, I take care to blur the faces before each broadcast.

I do not denounce individuals, but practices, ”emphasizes Pierre Rigaux.

Today, the dissemination of his shock videos unleashes hundreds of death threats on social networks.

Contacted by

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, the National Federation of Hunters kicks in and refuses to comment on this video.

In May, the president (DVD) of Hauts-de-France, Xavier Bertrand, had promised to request the inscription of waterfowl and traditional hunts as a UNESCO world heritage site.

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