The days pass and the three young wolves escaped from the Frontenay-Rohan-Rohan sanctuary are still running.
This Tuesday, November 17, the director of cabinet of the prefect of Deux-Sèvres, Jean-Luc Tarrega, held an audio conference to take stock of the research. He indicated in particular that a research protocol had been set up under the coordination of the referent prefect “wolves”, the prefect of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, Pascal Mailhos.
“Clues indicate their presence near the park”
As part of this protocol, and in order to strengthen research expertise, a specialist from Vésubie (in the Provence-Alpes-Côtes-d’Azur region) joined the Office français team. biodiversity and the ten gendarmes who have been looking for the three missing wolves for five days now.
Important means of surveillance
and capture (cages, traps, cameras, helicopter, drones) were set up around the Frontenay-Rohan-Rohan farm. Clues indicate the presence of wolves near the park
, said the chief of staff of the prefect of Deux-Sèvres.
Slaughtered sheep: a wolf?
The eight sheep found slaughtered Monday at a place called “Aguré”, in the town of Saint-Saturnin-sur-Bois (Charente-Maritime), were they victims of one of the three wolves escaped or of a stray dog? It is the judicial inquiry that was opened that will tell
, contented himself with declaring Jean-Luc Tarrega while indicating that thermal cameras had indeed spotted a large canine which could be likened to a wolf ”.
Breeders warned
All the breeders in the area have been warned that wolves are in the wild and they have been asked to be vigilant, an extreme watch of their herds, and if possible to bring their animals in at night.
, said Jean-Luc Tarrega.
Concerning the population, the chief of staff of the prefect is reassuring: The inhabitants should not fear for their safety. These young wolves will rather seek to hide, to get away from the tumult than to attack humans
.
Inform the French Office for Biodiversity
However,
continued Jean-Luc Tarrega, Above all, you must not want to try to approach them or give them food. Access prohibition measures
to the search area were taken so as not to interfere with the current capture operation and in order to calm the fleeing animals ”
If by chance we cross their path outside this perimeter, the only thing that can be useful in the context of research is to warn the teams of the French Biodiversity Office 79 at tel: 05 49 25 02 47, for Deux-Sèvres, or those of the French Biodiversity Office
17 at tel: 05 46 74 95 20 for Charente-Maritime ”.
The last resort
If the search were to drag on, a hunt could be organized. This is the ultimate means provided for by the protocol when we have gone to the end of the research, within a month for example
, explained Jean-Luc Tarrega.
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