Emmanuel Macron desires to stop the situation of the wolf there “where there is pastoralism” | EUROtoday

Emmanuel Macron pleaded, Thursday, July 3, to stop the institution of the wolf there “Where there is pastoralism”. “We are not going to let the wolf develop and that it goes in massifs where it is in competition with activities that are ours”added the pinnacle of state throughout a visit to Aveyron. “And so that means that it is necessary, as we modestly say, to take it more [c’est-à-dire autoriser qu’un plus grand nombre de canidés soient abattus] »»he insisted.

The Head of State argued that the presence of the bear, of the wolf “And even vulture” led the breeders to leave their animals ” down “. “And so we’ve lands that once more grow to be wasteland, brush, and instantly what is going on on: I wager it, in 4 years, we may have fires”he pressed.

“All the individuals who invent guidelines and who don’t dwell with animals in locations the place there’s the bears which redesigns or the wolf, whether or not they go to spend two nights”he still launched, claiming to know “The anxiousness that it represents” and castigating the accumulation of rules imposed on breeders.

“No scientific basis”

The president is based in particular on the recent decision, taken at European level, to downgrade the status of the wolf, which has become a species “Protected” and no longer “Strictly protected”an evolution denounced by defenders of biodiversity.

On May 28, the Minister of Agriculture, Annie Genevard, said before the Senate that on May 12 there had already been “759 assaults and a pair of,617 predated animals”causing “Considerable injury” to breeders. At the end of June, the government had taken an order authorizing the defense shots of cattle and equine breeders against wolves even if their herd was not attacked.

Contacted by the France-Presse agency to comment on the words of Emmanuel Macron, Cédric Marteau, of the League for the Protection of Birds, believes that“Excluding wolves from breeding areas isn’t practical and isn’t a scientific foundation” because “Wolves dwell in massive territories that it’s not possible to divide”. According to him, “The problem is to proceed the work undertaken with breeders and to strengthen the measures to restrict interactions with herds”.