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The protocol governing shootings against wolves threatening herds will be "simplified" via a decree published "by the end of the week", announced the Minister of Agriculture.
The protocol governing shootings on wolves threatening herds will be "simplified" via a decree published "by the end of the week", "in accordance" with what "many breeders" were demanding, the Minister of Agriculture announced on Wednesday. 'Agriculture. “We will have a shooting order by the end of the week, which is simplified in accordance with the requests that had been made by many breeders,” declared Marc Fesneau during a press conference three days before the Salon de l agriculture, alongside the Prime Minister.
According to the minister, the wolf plan for the period 2024-2029 was presented on Tuesday "in its final version". The event was not on his calendar.
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12,000 animals attacked in 2022
The version presented in September - criticized both by environmental organizations and by breeders - already provided for a simplification of the shooting protocols intended to kill wolves attacking herds, by eliminating for example the obligation for wolf scouts - officially responsible for managing the regulation of harmful species - to illuminate the animal before shooting.
It was also envisaged to open the "possibility of having two shooters on the simple defense shot or even three in an exceptional manner after authorization from the prefect". Representatives of breeders from the majority union FNSEA demanded a “radical change in the shooting protocol” to reduce the lupine population.
After disappearing for a while in France, the wolf reappeared in the early 1990s crossing the Alps from Italy, and its ranks gradually grew. Breeders deplored more than 12,000 animals attacked in 2022.