The state still authorizes ptarmigan hunting
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Photo: Sébastien de Danieli
Hunting of the ptarmigan is authorized again! Allowing hunting of mountain birds in 2022 is incomprehensible.
We are counting on you to help us by opposing the hunting of mountain Galliformes. A new public consultation is being held on the website of the Prefecture of Hautes-Alpes until June 4, 2022, inclusive. This is a chance to express yourself. Let’s seize it!
We do not want future generations to discover stuffed birds in the "museum of extinct alpine wildlife" that we will soon have to open if we continue on this anachronistic path.
These birds are targeted by DIRECTIVE 2009/147/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL in its Annex I, which recommends implementing protection measures for the species listed in Annex 1, including the Alpine Ptarmigan, whose Latin name is lagopus mutus helveticus.
The Black Grouse and the Alpine Ptarmigan are classified as "vulnerable" and "endangered" respectively on the Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
It is no coincidence that they are on these lists: mountain bird populations have been declining for decades and are particularly exposed to global warming.
Environmental protection associations do valuable work by systematically challenging decisions in court based on the legal grounds of European texts. And the courts very often rule in their favor. On Tuesday, March 1, the administrative court of Toulouse condemned the State for fault: it had continued to authorize the hunting of ptarmigan and capercaillie year after year, even though the courts had annulled all orders authorizing this hunting between 2008 and 2015.
Citizens and their children no longer understand the lack of attention to biodiversity when a species is threatened. This decision to allow the hunting of mountain galliforms year after year no longer makes sense today when their conservation should be a priority.
Sources:
https://reporterre.net/L-Etat-autorise-la-chasse-de-deux-especes-d-oiseaux-menacees
