00:00We, mountaineers, hikers, hikers, hunters,
00:08we have decided to reopen the bear hunt in Ariège.
00:30The bear disappearance in the Pyrenees is absolutely not natural,
00:50it is completely the work of man,
00:52in particular historically of hunting,
00:54which was allowed until 1962 in France.
00:57And when we started to work on bear protection,
01:00we realized that it was already too late,
01:02that is to say that the population was below the threshold of viability.
01:17It's very moving, you know it's environmental days,
01:20and I think it's a magnificent symbol of what can be the reconquest of the environment.
01:27We can't cohabit with this beast,
01:41that is to say, we can't...
01:43if you attack all day and night on deer,
01:47it's no longer possible, you have to understand it.
01:57The state has remained deaf to the demands of our elected representatives,
02:08of our organizations, citizens and professionals.
02:12So we have decided to reopen the bear hunt in Ariège
02:20and to carry out an active resistance against the agendas of the state.
02:26Ariège, land of freedom, is our past and will be our future.
02:56Today, the bear population is doing much better in the Pyrenees than 10 to 20 years ago.
03:12At the time, we counted a few individuals, today we have almost 43.
03:16This success is that of past reintroductions.
03:19We did it in 1996 and 2006.
03:26The bears are all cousins, from the same parents,
03:38and therefore they have a certain genetic weakness.
03:40This reintroduction in the bear hunt is essentially aimed at reintroducing genetic diversity
03:45to allow the population to develop better in the future.
03:56Thank you for watching!
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