A decree was published in the “Official Journal” to endorse a decision of the Council of State of June 1.
Le Monde with AFP
The prohibition has officially entered the law: three and a half months after the Council of State’s decision to prohibit hunting for the great tetra for five years, a decree was published on Saturday September 17 In the Official Journal to fix the modalities . p>
In 2019, seven associations had seized the Council of State, after the refusal of the Ministry of Ecological Transition to prohibit the hunting of this volatile, the largest wild land in Europe. In its decision rendered a year later, the highest administrative court had considered that “the hunt for the great tetra is not compatible with the maintenance of the species and that it is necessary to suspend it throughout the metropolitan territory of France for a sufficient period to allow the reconstruction of the species in the various sites of its distribution area “.
According to the text published on Saturday, dated 1 er September, the five -year period may be shortened “if new data accounts for a sufficiently favorable evolution of the state of conservation of the Large tank “. Tetrao Urogallus, of its scientific name, present in particular in the Pyrenees, the Cévennes and the Jura, is considered to be “vulnerable” on the French red list of endangered species.