In a video uploaded to YouTube on Tuesday, Nos Viventia denounced the breeding conditions for pheasants within the Domaine national de Rambouillet (Yvelines).
The founder of the association for the protection of the environment, quoted by France 3 Paris Ile-de-France, criticizes the managers of the Estate for “bringing these animals into being to kill them”
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16,000 pheasants raised on site
According to him, the birds are bred in captivity, "stacked on top of each other in cages"
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with their beaks covered "so that they cannot kill each other".
Some pheasants would be intended for hunting practiced by wealthy guests.
This is for example what the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi did in 2007. This activity had however been prohibited on the former presidential estate since 1995.
Today, the Domaine de Rambouillet depends on that of Chambord (Loir-et-Cher.) The latter ensures that Rambouillet holds all the administrative authorizations necessary to raise its approximately 16,000 pheasants in the “best sanitary conditions”
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