Austria: Federal Hunting Law Urgently Needed
People's initiative: At an event today in front of Parliament, 9 boards representing the 9 federal states were displayed, each showing 5 examples of glaring contradictions between hunting laws.
Absurd Differences Between Federal States
In Burgenland, shooting nursing wild boar mothers is generally prohibited; in Lower Austria it is permitted for 7 months per year, and in Tyrol at any time. Enclosure hunting is banned in Styria but permitted in Lower Austria until 2029. In small Austria, animals must be treated equally.
People's Initiative for a Federal Hunting Law
«The same animals should be equally protected everywhere in Austria,» says DDr. Martin Balluch of VGT. The people's initiative for a federal hunting law is open for signatures. More on the topic of hunting law, animal protection and animal rights.
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More on the subject of recreational hunting: In our dossiers on the criticism of recreational hunting gather fact-checks, analyses and background reports. 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.
