Wolf Massacre Switzerland: Complaint Against Five Cantons
Association CHWolf files complaint against five cantons to stop the wolf massacre.
CHWolf files supervisory complaint
The association CHWolf has filed a supervisory complaint against five cantons.
The wolf protection association hopes this will allow it to stop the shooting of wolves, as it announced. The shooting permits issued by the cantons are unlawful, the association argued.
The Federal Office for the Environment's approval for the shooting of wolves in the cantons of Graubünden, Valais, St. Gallen, Vaud and Ticino is not legally valid. This is because the FOEN has to date not published its approval order and failed to strip any potential appeals against the order of their suspensive effect.
Complaint with the Bern Convention
With the current shooting policy, the federal government is furthermore violating the will of the people and the Bern Convention, the wolf protection association continued. The wolf is a strictly protected species under the Bern Convention, which has been ratified by 46 European and other states. CHWolf had already filed a complaint with the Bern Convention at the beginning of December.
Federal Council temporarily brings the Hunting Act into force
On 1 November, the Federal Council had temporarily brought the first part of the amendment to the Hunting Act into force. This gave the cantons the opportunity to carry out “preventive regulatory culls” as early as December and January, provided they obtained the approval of the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN). The Geneva model demonstrates that professional wildlife management without recreational hunters is viable.
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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.
