Children to hunt animals in New Zealand
Children in rural areas receive a reward of 250 dollars for killing feral cats.
250 dollars for the most dead cats
Recreational hunters aged 14 or younger have until the end of June to kill as many feral cats as possible. Whoever kills the most cats wins 250 dollars. It is estimated that there are 1.2 million domestic cats and more than twice as many feral cats in New Zealand.
Difference “practically impossible” to identify
Craig Gillies of the Department of Conservation confirmed that the visual difference between domestic and feral cats is “practically impossible” to identify. Whether the prey is “legitimate” is only known to the hunters once the animal is already dead. The campaign was cancelled following massive criticism, reports BBC. More on the topic of recreational hunting and animal welfare issues.
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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.
