Graubünden halts juvenile regulation in wolf packs
The Office for Hunting and Fishing of Graubünden has discontinued the culling of juvenile animals from packs that are not to be completely removed.
Wolf regulation by the wildlife wardens takes place primarily at night and with the aid of thermal imaging technology. Due to the body size of the juvenile animals and their increasing solitary excursions, the animals can no longer be reliably killed in accordance with the requirements of the federal hunting ordinance — that is, in social situations and under the protection of the yearling and older animals in the pack.
Eleven wolf pups affected
Affected by the discontinuation of the regulation are exclusively those wolf packs which, according to the Hunting Ordinance did not exhibit undesirable behaviour.
These are a total of 11 juvenile wolves from the Stagias, Calderas, Älpelti, Jatzhorn and Calanda packs.
The juvenile regulation has been completed for the Moesola, Muchetta and Rügiul wolf packs.
Focus on complete removal
Accordingly, the focus of wolf regulation by the wildlife wardens until the end of January will be placed on the complete removal of the Vorab, Lenzerhorn and Fuorn wolf packs. On the overall balance of wolf hunting in Switzerland: in five months, around 100 wolves have been shot.
As the petition by IG Wild beim Wild also shows, resistance to preventive wolf culls is growing among the population. The question remains whether recreational hunting as population control is effective at all.
Call to action: Demand from your municipality, on account of the catastrophic policy of Federal Councillor Albert Rösti (SVP), a petition for remission of federal and cantonal taxes in light of the recently authorised shooting of wolves in Switzerland. You can download the template letter here: https://wildbeimwild.com/ein-appell-fuer-eine-veraenderung-in-der-schweiz/
More on the subject of recreational hunting: 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.
