500Nitro
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16/05/09 04:53 AM
Re: First legally shot wolf in France

Here is a wolf who will show no more crocs.

At night of Saturday, at 1 h 15, the first lieutenant of louveterie slaughtered the animal on the lands of Petit-Bornand-les-Glières (Haute Savoie), while he had got into the park to sheep of the biggest stockbreeder of the village. The first shooting of sample allowed by the government since April 22nd, and supervised by a bylaw in the department, attained its target.

But in the village, crocs, some people still have them. A wolf not having satisfied their hunger to see the animal in national parks " and not in the middle of herds, or in some metres " of houses ".
The hunters want a regulation

And it is precisely because practically whole village was on edge since last spring, following attacks repeated by the wolf on herds and wild fauna, which state secretary in Ecology, Chantal Jouanno, grabbed national advice for the protection of nature.

Three months afterwards the warning on sight of a hunter of the village, followed to have killed one of this Canidae, the approval of a shooting of sample was accepted. And allowed since Wednesday evening, of day as night, by the prefect, in the area around two herds, already equipped with a maximum of protection, but victims of attacks since the beginning of pastoral season.

" Shooting achieved, this is going to tranquilize game at first it is sure, acknowledges Mark Chuard, the mayor of the village, who not hiding his position, puts into perspective, it is only a first step ".

Who should be the only one, at the moment. The regulation of kind and creation of a plan of hunt for the animal, in the same capacity as wild fauna, as claims it passionately the departmental confederation of the hunters, not being in small papers of actual law.

" The hunters get worried about a fall of wild fauna, but in the logical schema, noticed in Alps of the south and Vercors, it is a transitional effect which turns out to be advantageous. It leaves again in increase and a natural selection is made with more attentive animals, The wolves eat more hardly, and kind regulates. When in the domestic livestock, it always represented 20 - 30 % of its feeding ", explains Éric Feraille, at the head of Frapna.

And to restrict damage, this shooting must re-learn the fright of the man to the wolf. Have a feeling that the approach of a herd can be fatal to him.



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