Recreational hunters lie through their teeth
The State Hunting Association of Baden-Württemberg wants to shorten the closed season for foxes. Wildtierschutz Deutschland exposes the spurious arguments.
760’000 Foxes shot, not a single partridge saved
For years, the State Hunting Association of Baden-Württemberg has been pushing for a further reduction of the closed season for foxes. The spurious argument: recreational hunting during the mating season is supposedly an effective conservation measure for endangered species.Recreational hunting during the mating season is claimed to be an effective protective measure for threatened species. Wildtierschutz Deutschland exposes the deception:
Between 2015 and 2020, hunting statistics do not record a single partridge. In the period before 2015, there was no closed season for foxes at all. Between 2004 and 2015, over 760’000 foxes were shot, and the number of hares declined by 40 percent.
No increase in the fox population
While in the early 2000s still around 80’000 foxes were killed each year, hunting bag figures over the last 10 years show only around 50’000 foxes. There is no question of any increase in the predator population.
Habitat loss is the true cause
Predators such as foxes, martens or sparrowhawks are not responsible for the decline of ground-nesting birds. The causes are habitat loss, over-fertilisation, pesticide use and insect decline. The Geneva model since 1974 and Luxembourg since 2015 demonstrate that neither populations increase nor diseases break out. Recreational hunting fails as population control. More on the topic: Studies and Biodiversity.
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More on the subject of recreational hunting: 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.
