After the death of a cyclist during a fight in mid-October, the government asks hunters to review their "good practices" in terms of safety. Alsace took a step ahead.
How to avoid hunting accidents? The Minister of Ecological Transition François called a few days ago the hunters to more "good practices" in terms of safety, after several fatal accidents. A mountain biker died in mid-October, during a big game fight.
Difficult to make everyone live together: hunters, hikers, and cyclists. But Alsace is ahead when we talk about prevention: it is the hunters who distribute safety vests to walkers.
Orange vest for everyone
To avoid confusing a cyclist with a wild boar or a deer, the president of the Federation des chasseurs first launched in France the fashion of the red-orange vest, mandatory for hunters during batches in the department.
A color that stands out better than yellow in autumn landscapes, explains Gerard Lang in a field of asparagus where deer are hunted a few kilometers, north of Strasbourg: "At least for the period beaten From October 15 to February 1, everyone should be dressed in orange-red." He gives free vests with reflective materials to cyclists, hikers, and mushroom collectors.
Ammunition adapted in plain
But it does not stop there, in plain, it is also necessary to change ammunition: replace the balls by sinkers. "All around us, there are only houses, cars that circulate, so we ask our hunters to shoot the deer with lead: the lead, 100 meters, no longer hurts anyone." While a bullet has a range of several kilometers.
The problem, the battles are not yet reported enough, in plain mountain, regrets Lechmere, president of a mountain bike club Strasbourg, the Bike Club: "We try to document before the outputs, we learn about mayor, we also use a voluntary website with cards that report the bottles, vigilance-chasse.fr. "
"The natural environment is for everyone, you have to learn to share it, I think it's the first emergency," he says, "because the real problem is that there is no dialogue! " For him, it will go by "giving-giving": show from both sides that one makes efforts. In his ATV club, yellow vests with reflective tapes are mandatory at this time.
Hunters, the first victims
Fatal hunting accidents mainly affect the hunters themselves: of the thirteen people killed by bullets in France during the last hunting season (June 2017-May 2018), a large majority are hunters (only two were not hunters).
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