More wild boar despite culling with night vision clip-on devices
Technical aids are meant to make wild boar hunting easier. Yet the population continues to grow.
Recreational hunters are permitted to use night vision devices when hunting wild boar. Despite this aid, the cantons of Aargau and Solothurn have seen no reduction in wild boar. The numbers have in fact increased.
“These are no miracle cures”
“These are no miracle cures,” says Silvia Nietlispach of the Solothurn Hunting and Fisheries Administration. “Wild boar are highly intelligent animals. Hunting them is a challenge.” Recreational hunting fails as population control.
Soon with silencers?
The federal government and cantons are discussing the approval of further technical aids, including silencers. The new Hunting Act would have regulated this, but was rejected at the ballot box. More on the topic of recreational hunting and Switzerland.
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More on the subject of recreational hunting: 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.
