Updated on 28/11/2024
To replace the louveterie lieutenants currently in office and whose mandate ends on December 31, 2024, Étienne GUYOT, prefect of Gironde, has appointed 59 louveterie lieutenants (57 men, 2 women, 19 new) for the next mandate which will take effective January 1, 2025 for a period of 5 years.
Louveterie lieutenants are private individuals, voluntary collaborators of the administration, who intervene on the orders of the prefect to put an end to damage caused by wild animals when ordinary means of management have been insufficient or impossible to implement. .
They carry out emergency missions, for example in the event of large game wandering on busy roads or in urban areas. They intervene locally in the regulation of species whose populations are significant in Gironde (wild boar, deer) and have an impact on agricultural and forestry crops or on environments (destruction of protected habitats). They support hunters in regulating these species, when hunting is closed or in the event of local dysfunctions. Finally, they intervene in the regulation of animals causing the transmission of diseases (bovine tuberculosis), in order to limit their spread (bovine tuberculosis).
In this context, certain sectors of intervention have been reinforced: at the level of the Bordeaux metropolis and the Arcachon basin, due to the growing importance of requests for intervention on wild boars in urban and peri-urban areas, on more than half is in the department due to the extension of areas affected by bovine tuberculosis, on highways, national roads, in monitoring relations with managers and the rigor of intervention protocols. In addition, an “archer referent” lieutenant will make it possible to deploy this technique in sectors where shooting with weapons is not suitable.
The departmental association of louveterie lieutenants plays an important role in leading the collective and with state services. From the spring of 2025, the people appointed as well as the reappointed Cub Scout lieutenants will follow “Zouveterie” training in particular in terms of security (urban environment, proximity to roads, etc.), first aid, the role and skills of the Cub Scout lieutenant, and taking into account the risks of zoonoses in their activities.
