Yet Another Isolated Incident: Recreational Hunter Shoots Cow
A recreational hunter shot a grazing cow in the Vogelsberg district. He claimed to have been aiming at a raccoon. Another isolated incident.
Cow shot on pasture in the Vogelsberg district
According to a media report a recreational hunter shot a cow grazing in a pasture in the Vogelsberg district during the night from Saturday to Sunday on the first weekend of August.
The recreational hunter told the Oberhessische Zeitung that he had been aiming at a raccoon and accidentally hit the cow in the background. Since he had fired without an adequate backstop, the district authority announced that the shooter's hunting licence is now under review.
PETA calls for a ban on recreational hunting
«How many living beings have to be injured or die senselessly before recreational hunting is finally banned?»
Peter Höffken, specialist adviser at PETA
Numerous serious hunting accidents
In recent years, numerous serious hunting accidents have already caused outrage. Recognised studies demonstrate that from an ecological perspective there is no necessity for recreational hunting. IG Wild beim Wild systematically documents hunting accidents and criminal activity.
- Keeping raccoons away humanely
- Raccoons have a right to life too
- Dealing with “invasive” species – a critical analysis from a biological and legal perspective
- Neozoa
- Basel wants to kill raccoons
- Raccoons are not a threat
- Open letter to Katrin Schneeberger of BAFU
- Removal of the raccoon from the lists of so-called invasive species
- Facts instead of hunters’ tall tales about raccoons
- The hunting and nonsense authority in the canton of Aargau wants to shoot raccoons
More on the subject of recreational hunting: In the dossier Poaching and hunting crime in Switzerland we document cases, legal questions and recurring patterns. 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.
