Fires, Drought: for Hunting, Prefects Will Decide on a Case-by-Case Basis
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The game hunt has been open since 21 August 2026. The League for the Protection of Birds had asked the Loiret prefecture for a postponement, following the consecutive heats, and in the face of the situation of animals in the streams. Aymeric Caron, president of the Ecological Revolution for the Living (REV), reacts during his summer university.
While drought, heat and fires have affected ecosystems, the Ministry of Ecological Transition is reminding prefects this Friday, August 21 that they can suspend the game hunt.
An association asks the prefects of the areas burned this summer or affected by the drought to suspend the hunt, thus relaying a citizens' petition. But they will decide on a case-by-case basis, says the Ministry of Ecological Transition. However, the Ministry is preparing an instruction for them "to make them aware of the consequences of drought and heavy heat on habitats and species". - Fires, drought: for hunting, the prefects will decide on …
The minister responsible for ecological transition, Mathieu Lefèvre, sent an instruction to the prefects on Friday, August 21, reminding them of the possibility of suspending the hunting of water game in all or part of their department, depending on the situation after the heats and fires.
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