On a video captured thanks to thermal binoculars, a wolf appears on the outskirts of an alpine from the Vaudois Jura. He jumps over the grids placed on the ground to prevent the passage of livestock and continues his path by trotting on a forest road. Suddenly, he raises his head, sees the person who films him, and turns around quietly to post behind a dry stone wall. From there, he scrutinizes the herd of cattle he covets for five minutes. Finally, he leaves in the woods.
“What do you think of these images?” Request Jérémie Moulin to the twenty people gathered in the Jolimont chalet, in Champéry [dans le Valais]. The director of OPPAL, the organization for the protection of the mountain pastures created in 2020, has just explained to these future volunteers how to use the thermal twins to monitor the herds during the night, and the way in which they will have to react in the event of an observation of a wolf. “The person has taken too long to look at him”, Analysis a participant. “It looks like a documentary”, joking his neighbor.
“Do not immediately shout in the wolf”
“Exactly, confirms the trainer. It would have been necessary to have it staggered much faster. There he did not learn that human presence is synonymous with danger. You are here to keep wolves away,
