There were around 200 of them, in the small municipal hall of Plounéour-Ménez (Finistère), on Wednesday November 20, 2024: breeders from the department and members of the structures which sit on the departmental wolf committee (DDTM, chamber of agriculture, departmental federation of hunting, PNRA, Living Brittany, etc.), all brought together by the Confédération paysanne to discuss the place of the wolf in Brittany and its consequences on livestock farming.
Protect and compensate
From this meeting emerged demands, addressed to the prefecture: the request for the creation of a “compensation committee”, in which agricultural unions would sit in order to support breeders who have suffered attacks, as well as the establishment of a “wolf information system” (SMS alert type) which would make it possible to warn breeders in the event of an attack on their territory.
The participants also addressed the question of requests for exemptions for defensive shots, wolf tracking collars, the experimental implementation of genetic analyzes and even protective measures.
At the end of the evening, the Finistère Peasant Confederation recalled that “the arrival of the wolf is an additional burden for free-range breeders who are facing, at the same time, health crises (MHE, FCO, avian influenza), agricultural abandonment, due to lack of income, details the agricultural union in a press release. It is time that free-range livestock farming is truly considered by public policies and that ambitious economic and human resources are put in place. »
