Question 17926 — animals

Summary

Mr. Christian Girard alerts the Minister of Agriculture, Agri-Food and Food Sovereignty on the consequences of Decree No. 2026-815 of August 24, 2026 relating to the responsibilities of the prefect coordinating the national action plan on the wolf. Member of Parliament for Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, a department subject to incessant predation and in which breeders have suffered attacks from wolves for years, he can only relay their deep concern about this regulatory development. This decree now allows the coordinating prefect to suspend, in the territories he determines and until the end of the calendar year, defense and sampling shootings authorized or declared to the department prefects, without calendar constraints or prior reaching the national destruction ceiling. Operations carried out by louveterie lieutenants and agents of the French Biodiversity Office may also be subject to its prior agreement. In a territory where pastoral breeding is already weakened by the increase in attacks, work overload, the cost of protection and the psychological distress of breeders, this new possibility of suspension is experienced as a real blow to their backs. While they expect reinforced protection from the State, it on the contrary, equips itself with a new instrument likely to deprive them of the only means allowing them to immediately defend their herds. This restriction appears all the less justifiable since the national harvest ceiling was not reached in 2025 and the estimate published in March 2026 shows an average population of 1,082 wolves. He therefore asks whether the Government intends to reverse this regulatory development and guarantee that defensive shooting cannot be suspended in departments facing persistent predation pressure. Finally, he asks her what concrete measures she intends to take so that the protection of wolves does not continue to be to the detriment of the survival of pastoral livestock and those who support it.

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