Recreational hunter convicted for fatal shot near Volkach
Volkach is a town in Bavaria in the Lower Franconian district of Kitzingen.
In January 2022, a 78-year-old recreational hunter near Volkach was fatally struck in the head by a shot. A projectile fired by a 33-year-old recreational hunter apparently ricocheted off the frozen ground.
How many more living beings must be seriously injured or killed before recreational hunting is finally banned?
Peter Höffken, specialist advisor at PETA
Recreational hunting according to studies not necessary
Recognised studies confirm that from an ecological perspective there is no necessity for recreational hunting. Recreational hunting fails as population control. The approximately 400’000 recreational hunters in Germany are contrasted with only around 1’000 professional hunters.
Fine for recreational hunter
The Kitzingen District Court convicted the recreational hunter of negligent homicide, sentencing him to 150 daily fines of 70 euros each. More on the topic of crime and hunting and animal welfare issues.
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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.
