Last minute reprieve for wild geese flying over France – META
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A group of NGOs – France Nature Environnement (FNE), La ligue pour la protection des oiseaux (LPO), Humanité et Biodiversité, and One Voice – has urged the ‘Conseil d’État’ to intervene against the decree that expanded the hunting period of the migratory bird.
The decree, published by the Ministry for Ecological and Socially-just Transition, authorised the hunting of 4000 wild geese in February, despite European nature protection rules stating that hunting the species must end by 31 January.
The court rejected the arguments of the hunters and repeated – as it has been doing for the past 20 years – that the hunting must stop at the end of January.