Aargau: Hunting President Calls for Forest Police
Rainer Klöti actually wants more qualified game wardens. However, the canton of Aargau has only one.
Leisure Madness in the Forest
The pressure on the forest as a habitat was one of the central topics at the general assembly of recreational hunters Aargau. Rainer Klöti, president of the recreational hunters in the canton, is calling for an organisation with policing powers. “Kind words alone are not enough to deal with the leisure madness in the forest.”
Forest Police Instead of Rangers Without Powers
Klöti would like a small group of specialists with hunting and forestry training who can fine or expel offending individuals. For wildlife humans are a disturbance. More on the topic hunting legislation, recreational hunting and Switzerland.
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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. What the research says about this is shown by Hunting fact-checked: the state of research.
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.
