The Tarn prefecture announces this Thursday, April 21 that it has initiated an evacuation and safety procedure concerning two packs of wolves from the Trois Vallées zoo, in Montredon-Labessonnié in the Black Mountain. This decision is supported by a report “particularly edifying” as to the situation of canids.
The zoo closed for four months, “major disorders”
Since last December, a prefectural decree has suspended the opening of the zoo to the public. This closure followed an escape of some of the wolves from the establishment shortly before Christmas. He had to shoot down four of themthe other five had been preserved.
The State services then asked specialists in the species, who came on site in March, to carry out an inventory of the conditions of well-being of the wolves, as well as the security conditions related to their enclosure. The report produced by this commission mentions “_major and inadmissible disorders relating to c_accommodation and care conditions brought to wolves but also major flaws with regard to the overriding objective of public safety“.
The prefecture now requires the owner of the zoo to transfer these two packs of wolves to other animal parks. The establishment is experiencing significant difficulties, and has been in the crosshairs of the Ministry for Ecological Transition since October 2020 and the public tweet of the Minister, Barbara Pompili, who had demanded without obtaining the permanent closure of the park.