Recreational hunters offend not only against nature but also against fellow hunters
Time and again one reads of overturned high seats for which hunting opponents are held responsible. But often it is the recreational hunters themselves.
Wildlife cameras stolen, hunting pulpit set on fire
In Pöhla in the Erzgebirge, a recreational hunter stole from his fellow hunters and promptly walked into a trap.
«Chips kept disappearing from our wildlife cameras, sometimes the entire device,» says Bernstein, who acts as hunting warden for the lease holder. «In addition, signs were repeatedly torn down and even a hunting pulpit was set on fire.»
In mid-January, Bernstein installed a surveillance camera. Less than six hours later came the bull’s-eye: a well-known recreational hunter and farmer had stolen the wildlife camera. He fetched tools, returned, and broke open the pulpit to steal two more cameras.
Multiple charges filed
Bernstein and his colleagues were able to track the alleged thief’s movements to the nearest metre, as they had built transmitters into the cameras. All of this resulted in multiple charges against the recreational hunter, as tag24.de reports. More on the topic of 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. 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.
