Nature protection associations announced a massacre. Can we say that they were right?
Authorized to kill 594 chamois throughout the Doubs department between September 2024 and the end of January 2025, hunters will kill just over 300.
This is not much according to them, but far too much for the defenders of the bovid.
“As of January 20, there were 296 chamois killed since the start of the hunting season (Editor's note: September 9),” specifies Thibaut Powolny, technical and scientific director of the departmental hunting federation. Although the prefect can extend the closing date to February 26, chamois hunting must officially end on January 26.
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This high hunting plan is justified, according to state services, by the damage that the ungulate causes on young shoots…
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