Valais game warden allegedly mistreated golden eagles
A Valais game warden allegedly mistreated two golden eagles in 2018. The cantonal court acquitted him, but the public prosecutor's office is appealing to the Federal Court.
Golden eagles bound and mistreated
A Valais “game warden” allegedly mistreated two golden eagles in 2018. The cantonal court acquitted him, but the public prosecutor's office is taking the case to the Federal Court.
The public prosecutor's office had accused the “game warden” of keeping and mistreating two eagles without authorisation. He bound them with a metal band in his barn and posed with them in a car.
A conspiratorial group tolerates poaching
If the witness statements are to be believed, there is a conspiratorial group among the 25 professional game wardens and 118 auxiliary game wardens as well as the 3’000 recreational hunters: they tolerate the poaching of predators and even actively encourage it. One recreational hunter reported that the game warden had urged him to shoot lynxes. “He said it was our job to exterminate the predators in Valais.” More on the topic Crime and Hunting.
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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.
