Julie David, chief of staff of the prefect of Gers, went to the field today, alongside the OFB, to carry out an operation to check security rules during a hunt.
The French Biodiversity Office mobilized to respect hunting safety rules
Monitoring the rules relating to the safety of hunters and non-hunters when hunting is one of the priority missions of the French Biodiversity Office (OFB). Checks are thus carried out throughout the year during hunting periods, in compliance with the requirements laid down in each department.
The OFB controls the measures determined by the departmental hunting management plans drawn up in each department by the departmental hunter federations, validated by the prefects for a period of 6 years and which must integrate regulatory measures to guarantee the safety of hunters and non-hunters. In addition to the checks carried out daily throughout the hunting period, the OFB carries out a large-scale national operation of coordinated checks each year.
In 2024, this operation takes place over the period from November 30 to December 15, 2024. Its objective is to inform and educate hunters about safety rules, but also to directly repress all offenses relating to hunting safety. . It targets, depending on the case, primarily driven hunts, hunts organized in forest areas, in areas with high visitor numbers or even in peri-urban forests. Shooting in dangerous directions (houses, roads, hiking trails, etc.), car travel as well as materialization and respect for angles of 30° will be particularly controlled. This mission carried out by OFB agents is registered within the framework of the objectives entrusted to it by the State, which it implements in support of the departmental hunter federations, with the aim of continuing to reduce the number of accidents and incidents occurring in the context of hunting.
Find all the mandatory and basic safety rules on the OFB “Hunting Safety” page: https://www.ofb.gouv.fr/la-securite-la-chasse
