Public Dumbing-Down in the Canton of Baselland
It has always been a great concern of IG Wild beim Wild to support the hunting community in its public relations work.
35 new recreational hunters in Baselland
35 new recreational hunters have received their diplomas. Government President Thomas Weber emphasised that recreational hunting is placing ever higher demands on recreational hunters.
Facts instead of hunters' tall tales
Although every wildlife biologist knows that the pointless fox hunt is a fabricated myth, recreational hunters are trained within a cult-like environment. Anyone who obtains a hunting licence receives two things: a licence to kill and a licence to be dumbed down.
Geneva model as a blueprint
We commend the Canton of Geneva for its professional wildlife management without recreational hunters, but with upstanding game wardens. Safety, expertise, animal welfare and ethics are the guiding principles. More on the subject of animal welfare problems of recreational hunting and hunting legislation.
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More on the subject of recreational hunting: In the dossier The Role and Criticism of Recreational Hunters we shed light on the training, power and self-image of recreational hunters. The scientific evidence is presented in the overview Studies on the Effects of Recreational Hunting.
The position of IG Wild beim Wild: IG Wild beim Wild rejects recreational hunting. Our model is the canton of Geneva, which has managed without recreational hunting since 1974: without hunting seasons, without hunting dogs, without driven hunts, without high seats, without the animal cruelty and crime that go hand in hand with hunting season elsewhere. What has worked there for over fifty years disproves every position paper by JagdSchweiz. An association that bases its policy on claims it refutes in its own documents is not a professional organisation, but a factory for misinformation.
