Freiberg Kärpf Wildlife Reserve
The Freiberg Kärpf wildlife sanctuary is celebrating an anniversary this year. The area, which covers 100 square kilometres, is to be honoured with exciting events and activities.
Oldest Wildlife Sanctuary in Europe
In the heart of the canton of Glarus lies the oldest wildlife sanctuary in Europe: the Freiberg Kärpf. As far back as 475 years ago, recreational hunting was banned here. At around 100 square kilometres, it is one of the largest hunting reserves in Switzerland.
Habitat for wildlife
Today, ibex, chamois, deer and roe deer live here, as well as marmots, eagles and black grouse. The wildlife sanctuary offers a largely undisturbed habitat of particular significance for biodiversity. More on the topic of the Geneva model and environment and nature conservation.
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More on the subject of recreational hunting: In our dossiers on the criticism of recreational hunting gather fact-checks, analyses and background reports. 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.
