As has been the case for 22 years, hunters will compensate farmers for damage caused by big game (wild boar, deer, roe deer…). So decided the Constitutional Council, Thursday, January 20. The law was attacked by the national federation of hunters.
“It is an incomprehensible decision“, reacts the federation of hunters of the Landes, in a press release. For her, the council makes “complies with a law recognized by all as obsolete.“What will, according to the FDC40, establish a system”loser for the federations of hunters, condemned in the short term financially; loser for the agricultural world, which will not/no longer receive compensation.” Finally, “loser for civil society, with an increase in collisions, urban damage, and related safety problems.”
1.6 million euros deficit in 2019
“We have some steadily increasing big game populations for several decades, and a decreasing number of hunters, the balance has been broken“, declares to France Bleu Gascogne Régis Hargues, director of the FDC40. “In 2019, we reached a deficit of 1.6 million euros in the Landes, we cannot support such a budget.”
He believes that a systemstate or insurance” would solve the problem.