This text, which aims to denounce “upractice of violent hunting” and “useless”, collected more than 100,000 signatures in less than six months.
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Badgers invite themselves to the Luxembourg Palace. A petition “for the ban on the digging up of badgers” reached the threshold of 100,000 signatures in less than six months, Saturday, September 10, on the Senate website, the threshold required for the Upper House to take action.
Registered on March 30, the petition brought by a spokesperson for the Association for the Protection of Wild Animals judges this hunting practice “particularly shocking since it consists, for hunters, in extirpating badgers directly from their burrows”. This technique, “called underground venery”is “violent, useless, non-selective and incompatible with the recognition of animals as sentient beings”believe the signatories.
The Conference of Presidents of the Senate can now decide, for example, the creation of a control mission, the inclusion on the agenda of a bill or even a debate in public session. The next meeting of the Conference of Presidents is scheduled for 21 September.
The Senate already set up a mission on the issue of hunting safety last November, in response to another petition calling for hunting-free days and stricter rules. She is due to report her findings next week. The Senate also took up a petition targeting anti-hunting activists, launching an information mission on the issue of tax benefits for donations to associations. It should make its conclusions at the beginning of October.