Five Long-Eared Owls Shot: Recreational Hunters Face Trial
A father and two sons shot five long-eared owls in Upper Austria. The trio is charged with animal cruelty and faces up to two years in prison.
Five Long-Eared Owls Shot
A father (67) and two of his sons (36, 31) are alleged to have shot five protected long-eared owls in Pram (Austria). A chance witness discovered a shot-up bird of prey nest and the remains of the birds.
Up to Two Years in Prison
The Wels public prosecutor's office has filed charges for the intentional killing of a vertebrate. One of the accused is a sworn hunting warden. The three recreational hunters have not yet confessed. More on the topic of Crime and Hunting, Species Protection and Hunting Law.
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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. 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.
