Recreational Hunter Shoots Horse Again
Once again it is confirmed that recreational hunters are neither well trained nor good marksmen.
Mare Mistaken for Wild Boar
A pregnant mare was shot by a recreational hunter in Bonvillars (VD) on 8.6.2023. Nella, who was carrying her fourth foal, was mistaken for a wild boar. The 30-year-old recreational hunter fired from a distance of approximately 30 metres.
Recreational Hunters Shoot at Everything
«When people say that recreational hunters shoot at anything that moves, that was the case on Thursday morning,» says the breeder. The IG Wild beim Wild is calling for medical-psychological assessments for recreational hunters. More on the topic Crime and Hunting, Animal Welfare Issues and Switzerland.
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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.
