Hunting and Fauna. At the end of June, the French government authorized the slaughter of 36 wolves in the vast area, from Alsace and Lorraine, in the north-east, down to the Alps and then, westwards, to the Pyrenees, where the animals have reappeared.
From that date to today there are seven i wolves culled, while the repopulation has meant that since 1992, since they reappeared after about sixty years, there are about three hundred animals living in the French Alps.
On 7 October, the last attempted shooting took place, as Jacques Chevallier, president of the federation of local hunters explains: “I was close to the comrade who shot him. Then the animal disappeared. There were traces of blood, we unleashed the dogs but we didn't find it ”.
In recent days, Yves Derbez, president of the Eleveurs et Montagne association, which brings together high altitude breeders, explained: “Cohabitation is not possible between us and wolves. Do they want us to keep a quality mountain farm or do they want wolves? If the government chooses the first option, the wolves must all be exterminated. There is no alternative ”.
The causes of the repopulation, according to the French breeders who are asking for drastic measures, are determined by the projects in this sense advanced by the animal rights activists, but also by the Italian "laxity": in the beautiful country, in fact, the wolves that populate the western Alps are many more than in France.
Even in the Cuneo area, however, the situation is serious: “Defend us from wolves or let's leave the mountains. Whole herds have dispersed or fallen into the gullies because they were attacked by wolves ", is the appeal launched by the margari who live in the area, one of whom said he was" surrounded: I saw the teeth of the wolves, I was afraid of die".
(November 3, 2015)
Source: DirettaNews
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