Nicolas Hulot is a wolf for the wolf | dunce cap

A few days ago, Brigitte Bardot, disgusted that there is no moratorium on hunting, particularly in the burnt regions, spoke in Var-Matin Nicolas Hulot of "sold" and "cowardly ". No doubt the new Minister of Ecology posed the problem in neo-Stalinist terms: “Bardot, how many divisions? The hunter lobby, on the other hand…”

This Saturday, August 5, she is doing it again in the columns of Provence. Interviewed by Franz-Olivier Giesbert after Nicolas Hulot's decision to kill forty wolves to please the breeders' lobby this time, she said: "I had good relations with Hulot: in the past, my Foundation worked with him. But I never thought he could do that. What cynicism! It was enough that he was appointed minister for him to change, it is the case to say, his tune. I no longer have any confidence in him even though he inspired confidence in me when he entered the government. He killed me somewhere…” And to add, in fine: “When this asshole (I restore the word of which Provence has only kept the initial) of Hulot decided to kill the forty wolves, I I cried for a whole night. “Let us avoid making old ladies cry — it is enough to make young people cry.

And let’s reason a little. Forty wolves is nearly 15% of French wolves, according to the latest estimates. Today there are just under 350 wolves per 550,000 km2. An unacceptable risk, according to the minister. The funny thing is that neither the Italians nor the Spaniards, who gallantly lent us some of their Canis lupus lupus, have problems with the so-called wolf attacks (which are most of the time, when it comes to large-scale massacres, only attacks by stray dogs: the wolf is an intelligent predator who seizes a beast lying around and knows how to be satisfied with it , shy and discreet as he is). Perhaps because their shepherds keep their animals, instead of sending them wandering in the mountains - which is, in France, the practice of large breeders who own very large herds. And that they are assisted by patous (indifferently Pyrenean Shepherds or Maremma Shepherds from Abruzzo) which are particularly dissuasive dogs, and from which it is absolutely necessary to keep a distance: they are fake stuffed animals and real predators. Ah yes, but in France the hiking lobby split two years ago with a petition addressed to Ségolène Royal asking that the patous be “socialized”. And others want the mountain to be abandoned to hikers, and also to remove shepherds, herds and dogs. Fortunately, real hiking specialists are giving intelligent advice during this time. We want the mountain, as long as it looks like Boulevard Saint-Germain.

The wolf was eradicated in the 19th century for superstitious reasons — they were blamed for all the disappearances of Red Riding Hoods, when we know very well that it was Michel Galabru. It is a protected species that the minister has decided to have slaughtered. A species that has been on the brink of total extinction, and will be on the verge of it again.

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— Judith Littlejohn Sun Jun 13 03:46:59 +0000 2021

For a long time, Hulot, for the cinephile that I am, that was it: And since I don't have a television, I didn't realize that now it was that: And with that, the rights derivatives of the various products marketed via TF1, not to mention what comes to it via its Foundation (now — since June — directed by Audrey Pulvar) and the company Eole Conseil which oversees it. Le Canard enchaîné has recently made it a favorite. Not enough to embarrass a government that fired Bayrou or Sarnez on suspicion, but tolerates Hulot or Pénicaud without problem. The requirement of virtue stops at the border of well-understood interests. Perhaps the good Monsieur Hulot should, instead of restoring the office of Lieutenant of Louveterie, have all known endocrine disruptors banned - there are some to date nearly 100,000, whose effects - including on reproduction - are disastrous. But hey, just at the thought of all these multinationals forced for a time to cut back on their margins; also at the idea of ​​these hypermarkets clearing their shelves of three-quarters of their products — my heart sinks. That of Nicolas Hulot too, obviously: it is thanks to the reversal of France and its ministry that the European Union bowed to German diktats and adopted a definition of the said disruptors that was the least restrictive possible - it was last month .Obviously wolves and sheep were more important.

Jean-Paul Brighelli

PS. I don't want to seem like I know everything about everything. My knowledge of the mores of the wolf, I owe it to my friend Henry Ausloos, professional wildlife photographer, who spent days and days, in the middle of winter, waiting in a makeshift igloo for a few American wolves to pass in front of him, in Yellowstone, in order to take a few shots which for once will not have been taken on the sly behind the gates of a zoo. But who has also photographed local wolves. Who have not eaten it, gosh!