Recreational hunters see themselves as advocates for wildlife
It has always been of great concern to IG Wild beim Wild to support hunters in their public relations work.
«Advocates for wildlife»?
Recreational hunters struggle to explain themselves in an enlightened society. Every year, these «advocates» torture and shoot millions of their clients on recreational hunts. The non-hunting population must protect free-living wildlife from recreational hunters.
Psychological assessments required
IG Wild beim Wild demands medical-psychological assessments for recreational hunters and an upper age limit. The alarming reports of hunting accidents and fatal incidents show: it is high time to abolish recreational hunting! More on the topic of animal welfare issues and the Geneva model.
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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.
