#Act4 Wildlife Public opinion around dolphins in dolphinariums is clearly changing. But what happens to dolphins when the parks get closed? Talks with policymakers are underway and several dolphin rehabilitation programs are getting implemented in Europe, but none are yet operational. The very complex nature of such a pilot project may be to blame. The rapid closing of dolphinariums poses a threat to dolphins 22 April 2021 Sea First Foundation
#Act4 Wildlife The EU exports approximately 3,500 tonnes of fins per year, with a total value of around 52 million euros. 73 million sharks are slaughtered each year for this purpose C’est Assez! supports the European Citizens' Initiative #StopFinningEU to end the European Union's shark fin trade 22 April 2021 C'est Assez
#Act4 Wildlife On 29 January 2021, the French National Assembly approved on first reading an ambitious text on pets and captive wild species. It must now be submitted to the Senate for adoption in March. Fight against animal abuse : historic vote at the French National Assembly 2 February 2021 FBB
#Act4 Wildlife Ten tigers trained for the circus and housed together in a small space have been rescued after a nearly two-year investigation. French law enforcement authorities seized the big cats near the northern city of Beauvais last week following months of petitioning by animal rights organization One Voice. French Authorities Seize 10 Circus Tigers Locked In Cage Truck 6 January 2021
#Act4 Wildlife The French Ministries of Agriculture, Health and Ecological Transition announced on Sunday 22 November 2020 that COVID-19 was detected for the first time on a French mink farm in Eure-et-Loire. COVID-19: a mink farm infected in France 23 November 2020
#Act4 Wildlife The French Minister for the Ecological Transition, Barbara Pompili, announced on 29 September 2020 the gradual ban on the use of wild animals in travelling circuses and on mink farming. As well as the end of the captivity of dolphins and orcas in inadequate dolphinaria, and the implementation of support to improve the detention of wild animals in zoos. French Minister announces strong measures in favor of wild animals welfare 5 October 2020 FBB
#Act4 Wildlife L214 and Pierre Rigaux, independent naturalist, obtained the images of one of the largest animal hunting farms located in France (Missé in Deux-Sèvres), belonging to the giant of the hunting breeding industry, Gibovendée. Hunting industry: New Investigation about the leader in game farming in France 22 September 2020 L214
#Act4 Wildlife The animal condition has become an important societal issue and the expectations of the French population are very high in this matter. Petition to ban wild animals in circuses in France 24 August 2020
#Act4 Wildlife French government risks paying huge fines if it bows to pressure from hunting lobby. The European Commission orders France to outlaw 'barbaric' glue traps for birds 10 August 2020
#Act4 Wildlife Paris has ignored a letter of formal notice sent by the European Commission in July last year, which calls on French authorities to stop illegal bird hunting. France reprimanded over controversial bird hunting practices 22 June 2020
#Act4 Wildlife One Voice is launching a vast campaign based on their high-risk infiltration into the world of underground hunting to denounce this despicable hunt which subjects’ badgers to the worst ill-treatment. Badger hunting: hell underground 13 May 2020
#Act4 Wildlife In a press release, Wallonia regrets that pollution which occurred on April 9 near Cambrai in northern France has “never been reported by France to Belgian authorities“, in violation of an international alert procedure. “Environmental disaster” in the Scheldt: French company causes the death of thousands of fish 27 April 2020
