Massacre of the wolf population in Ticino: 1 of 5
The wolves will not understand what is happening to them. For years, people irresponsibly fed them within their territory due to negligent herd protection. And now, suddenly, shots are being fired at them everywhere, even though these wolves were never hostile towards those people.
Young wolf of the Carvina pack killed
On 2 December 2023, a young wolf was killed by wildlife rangers as part of the order to massacre the Carvina pack.
This was announced by the Office for Hunting and Nonsense in Bellinzona, which stated that the carcass was transported, as per standard practice, to the Fish and Wildlife Medicine Centre (FIWI) for the necessary analysis.
Kill order for three packs
This is the only specimen born in 2023 from the Val Carvina pack, for which the cantonal government had issued a kill order just a few days earlier, following approval by the Federal Office for the Environment.
Taking into account the binding opinion of the Federal Office for the Environment, the cantonal government issued the following massacre order:
- Val Colla pack: killing of up to three wolves born in 2023
- Carvina pack: killing of one wolf born in 2023
- Onsernone pack: killing of one wolf born in 2023
Fact-free wolf management
Over the past twelve months, approximately fifteen wolves have been identified, distributed across the entire cantonal territory.
Wolf management in Switzerland is now entirely devoid of facts. The Geneva model has shown since 1974 that professional wildlife management works without recreational hunters.
Dossier: Wolf in Switzerland: Facts, politics and the limits of hunting
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More on the subject of recreational hunting: In our dossiers on recreational hunting gather fact-checks, analyses and background reports. 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.
