Encountering Wildlife
When encountering wildlife, the rule is: keep your distance, do not approach, and give animals the space they need for their natural behaviours.
Maintain a safe distance
It is important to wildlife with respect and caution. Always maintain a safe distance and never approach them. Give them the space they need.
Rules for hiking and camping
Familiarise yourself with local regulations. Feeding or hunting wildlife without a permit is illegal. If an animal becomes aggressive, increase your distance and back away slowly. More on the topic of species protection and environment and nature conservation.
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More on the subject of recreational hunting: In our dossiers on recreational hunting gather fact-checks, analyses and background reports. 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.
