{"id":140787,"date":"2014-12-28T10:40:27","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T09:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=140787"},"modified":"2019-12-23T00:49:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T11:49:42","slug":"pyrenean-stags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/pyrenean-stags\/","title":{"rendered":"Pyrenean stags"},"content":{"rendered":"

I will not talk again about this magnificent animal, my point will be different, bear with me.<\/p>\n

These photos were taken in a 37 hectare animal park in the oriental Pyrenees mountains at 1800 meters high where the animals live in semi freedom in natural surroundings.<\/p>\n

It is neither a zoo with animals confined in restricted pens away from a natural environment nor a reserve.<\/p>\n

The space dedicated to each species is important enough: taking pictures is not always easy, I saw wolves at about 250 meters, impossible to photograph.<\/p>\n

Cerf \u00e9laphe des Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es<\/h5>\n

Je ne pr\u00e9sente plus ce magnifique animal, l’un des plus majestueux de notre faune europ\u00e9enne.<\/p>\n

Ces photos ont \u00e9t\u00e9 prises au parc animalier des Angles dans les Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es orientales.<\/p>\n

Situ\u00e9 au pied des pistes du Pla Del Mir, ce parc occupe une portion de 37 hectares de for\u00eat de pins \u00e0 1800m d\u2019altitude o\u00f9 les animaux vivent en semi-libert\u00e9 dans un espace naturel.Ce n’est ni un zoo avec des animaux confin\u00e9s dans des espaces restreints hors du milieu naturel, ni une r\u00e9serve. L’espace d\u00e9di\u00e9 \u00e0 chaque esp\u00e8ce est assez important pour que voir et photographier les animaux ne soit pas \u00e9vident: j’y ai vu les loups mais \u00e0 pr\u00e8s de 250 m\u00e8tres, impossibles \u00e0 prendre en photo.<\/p>\n

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Je n’ai rien contre les zoos, les r\u00e9serves, les parcs naturels – permettant \u00e0 bien des personnes de se familiariser avec la faune – qui peuvent agir pour pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces et m\u00eame pour en r\u00e9introduire dans la nature quand le faut…tant qu’ils sont bien g\u00e9r\u00e9s. Mais o\u00f9 je veux venir c’est que je souhaite du fond du c\u0153ur que dans l’avenir ce ne sera pas que dans ces endroits que les animaux sauvages pourront survivre…<\/p>\n

I have nothing against zoos, reserves and parks – which allow people to discover the fauna – they can act to preserve species and even to reintroduce them into the wild when necessary… as long as they are properly administrated. But what I am getting at is my deep wish that animals won’t be exclusively seen in those places…<\/p>\n

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L’heure est grave, la pression humaine consid\u00e9rable. Des associations diverses avec des intentions honorables au d\u00e9part, s’approprient \u00e0 pr\u00e9sent des territoires, r\u00e9glementent, taguent et baguent oiseaux et mammif\u00e8res et\/ou leur ins\u00e8rent des micro-puces (un ours est mort r\u00e9cemment dans les Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es d’une infection caus\u00e9e par une de ces puces…). Les oiseaux sont constamment traqu\u00e9s et pi\u00e9g\u00e9s \u00e0 chaque migration par de plus en plus d’associations \u00e9colos et ce, dans presque tous les pays du monde. Les poissons eux-m\u00eames, pour beaucoup d\u00e9j\u00e0 en voie d’extinction, risquent fort de ne plus \u00eatre visibles que dans les aquarium…<\/p>\n

Time is running out, human pressure is colossal. Many associations with honourables intentions to begin with are occupying or buying territories, regulating, tagging, ringing birds and mammals and\/or inserting microchips into their bodies (a reintroduced bear died from such an implant a few weeks ago in the Pyrenees…). Birds are constantly tracked & trapped at each migration by more and more so-called ecological associations around the planet. We soon won’t be able to see fish in the seas, only in large aquariums…<\/p>\n

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Oui, j’ai d\u00e9j\u00e0 \u00e9crit tout \u00e7a, ICI \u00e0 (propos des cerfs) et LA (\u00e0 propos du baguage des oiseaux) mais plus nous sommes nombreux \u00e0 nous r\u00e9volter contre un monde si contr\u00f4l\u00e9 plus nos g\u00e9n\u00e9rations suivantes auront une chance de voir ces animaux vivre libres. Tr\u00e8s bient\u00f4t nous n’aurons plus libre acc\u00e8s \u00e0 nos c\u00f4tes ni \u00e0 nos montagnes (la campagne \u00e9tant d\u00e9j\u00e0 r\u00e9duite consid\u00e9rablement), des espaces qui ne devraient pas \u00eatre \u00e0 vendre mais plus que des refuges pour notre si belle faune: un espace pour vivre libre.<\/p>\n

I have written at length about this already but the more we will protest against the loss of freedom and a controlled environment, the better chances for our future generations to see them live in free spaces and maybe keep our own freedom removed step by step…<\/p>\n

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