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France revises hunting rules but stops short of Sunday ban France's government on Monday announced tighter rules against hunting under the influence of drugs or alcohol, and protection for walkers and local residents, but stopped short of a hoped-for Sunday ban. Although a weekend "no hunting day" is popular with the public, President Emmanuel Macron is wary of alienating rural voters and adding to anti-government resentment as he launches a major pension reform. Instead, junior environment minister Berangere Couillard said hunting under the influence would be banned, training and safety rules for hunters strengthened and digital systems developed to warn other countryside users away from active hunting zones. Punishments will also be upgraded, including hunters losing their licences if they are involved in a serious accident. "My goal is to aim for zero accidents," Couillard said on a Monday trip to the Loiret department south of Paris. "We want to see better safety, seven days a week," she added. Statistics show hunting accidents have been on the decline in France over the past 20 years. But cases of injury or even death from stray bullets remain highly emotive and are often widely covered by the media. Some 90 accidents were recorded during the 2021-22 hunting season, eight of them fatal, according to the OFB biodiversity authority, which manages the sport. Just this weekend, an 84-year-old hunter in Corsica accidentally shot himself dead as he was stowing his gun in his car. Almost 80 percent of the French public favour a hunting ban on Sundays, polling firm IFOP found in December. The government had not ruled out such a move but sources within the executive told AFP last week that "nothing in the statistics points to Sunday being a more accident-prone day than any other". Meanwhile Willy Schraen, the head of the influential FNC hunting lobby, said last week he couldn't imagine hunting-free Sundays "for a single second". He has claimed there would be uproar in rural areas if there were a ban. "We have to share access to nature," the leader of the Greens parliamentary party, Marine Tondelier, retorted on Sunday. "This shouldn't just be discussed between Emmanuel Macron and Willy Schraen". The FNC (National Hunters' Federation) has backed a new criminal offence of hunting under the influence, similar to that in force for drivers. There are 1.1 million active hunters in France, according to the FNC, and some five million people possess a hunting licence.

French court overrules government on bird hunting licences France’s top administrative court has suspended new permits given out by the government for traditional bird hunting. Monday’s decision by the Council of State ruled that hunting orders granted by the government earlier this month were likely to contravene European law. The ruling follows Intense lobbying by nature conservationists. “It's a great joy that the urgency has been recognised because the damage is irreversible in terms of hunting,” Muriel Arnal, of the NGO One Voice, told France Info radio. "It's important to know that there is justice, and that our ecosystems and biodiversity are protected." Activists say that 150,000 birds die annually in France from non-selective hunting techniques such as glue traps and nets at a time when Europe's bird population is in sharp decline. Tecnniques banned Over the summer the court banned a range of traditional techniques for hunting birds, including using nets, cages and glue traps. The practices have been popular in the southwest of France and the eastern Ardennes region. “For years the hunting lobby has been listened to by successive governments,” Arnal said. “But today, we can't say that we don't know that birds are disappearing, that it's cruelty, just for a hobby.” The 2009 European Birds Directive prohibits the mass capture of birds without distinction of species. "Hunting traditions cannot justify failure to comply with the requirements of the Birds Directive," said the League for the Protection of Birds, hailing the French court's ruling as a "fine and great victory". However hunting groups are unhappy with the decision, arguing their bird hunts are too small to affect biodiversity". "I have a lot of anger, bitterness and disgust," Willy Schraen, president of the National Federation of Hunters, told AFP. "I don't understand this political and legal determination to annoy a handful of French people over something so insignificant."

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