The French biodiversity Agency (OFB) and the Bordeaux branch of the Central Office for the Fight against Environmental and Public Health Violations (OCLAESP) have dismantled a major international traffic in live animals of protected species. After months of investigation, four arrests were made on French territory, including a woman suspected of being the head of the trafficking network. Servals, parrots, monkeys, meerkats, squirrels... these species bought at low prices abroad were then resold via social networks, all over France.

Environmental inspectors from the French Biodiversity Agency carried out searches as part of an investigation into the death of a Bonelli's eagle, a rare and protected species. They have seized insecticide products that may have been responsible for the death.

While hunting with birdlime has been forbidden for the 2020/2021 season, a major monitoring operation has mobilised OFB teams in south-eastern France. In order to ensure that the ban is observed, inspections were made over one week in sites where hunting with birdlime was carried out.