Illegal marketing of shot wild birds
A recreational hunter from Hesse illegally marketed shot Canada geese on his website. The Committee Against Bird Slaughter filed a criminal complaint.
Criminal complaint for illegal marketing
The Committee Against Bird Slaughter has filed a complaint against Jens Gebhardt, a recreational hunter from Lorsch in Hesse, on suspicion of illegally marketing shot Canada geese.
On his website the man offers the species of goose, even though it may not be marketed according to the provisions of the Federal Wildlife Protection Ordinance This regulation is intended to restrict the commercial recreational hunting of certain wild animals.
Recurring illegal listings
In recent years, the Committee has repeatedly found such illegal listings, most recently swan breast fillets and woodcock in restaurants, or feathers from shot jays that had been used in hat pins. More on this under 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. 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.
