Wolf: disappointed breeders raise their camp in front of the prefecture of Gap

Gap (AFP)

Breeders who blocked the main entrance of the prefecture of the Hautes-Alpes since Monday evening raised the camp in the night from Wednesday to Thursday without having obtained the authorization to shoot the wolves in the heart of the Ecrins National Park.

"There is nothing to be done so that we can shoot in the Ecrins National Park," the president of the FDESA Hautes-Alpes René Laurens reported to about 200 farmers mobilized, reporting on a meeting. between the president of the main agricultural union, the FNSEA, Christiane Lambert, and the minister of the ecological transition Wednesday in Paris.

The wolf brigade of the National Office of Hunting and Wildlife is expected Thursday to proceed to potential shooting near the park.

According to Mr. Laurens, Minister Élisabeth Borne "announced that she would come to the Hautes-Alpes as soon as possible but her agenda is busy."

After these announcements, the tension mounted a notch and the protesters sprayed the prefecture of manure, dung, straw boots and threw straw burned through the grates.

Finally, they raised the camp towards 23:00, found a correspondent of the AFP.

The anger of the breeders follows the discovery last week of 97 sheep died in Villar-Loubière (Hautes-Alpes) after falling off a cliff due to a wolf attack, according to park officials.

They were asking the government for permission to fire in the Ecrins National Park in the event of a wolf attack.

Today, the shooting of defense or levy are authorized in the zones known as "adhesion" of the national parks.

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