Nature Park: Recreational Hunter Shoots Wild Boar from His Car
A 45-year-old pursues wild boar through a national park in his car and shoots them from behind the wheel. His daughter films the poaching.
Seven-year-old daughter films poaching, 45-year-old recreational hunter reported to authorities.
Wild boar shot from behind the wheel
A 45-year-old man who had pursued fleeing wild boar through the nature park «Parco dell'Alta Murgia» in his car and shot them directly from behind the wheel was tracked down by the Carabinieri and reported for poaching and killing wildlife in a nature reserve.
The officers caught wind of the recreational hunter because his seven-year-old daughter had filmed the brutal poaching on her smartphone.
20,000 Euro fine
A rifle was also found during the house search and immediately confiscated. The 45-year-old himself was reported for poaching and killing wildlife in a nature reserve.
In a parallel case, celebrating recreational hunters were identified with eleven killed wild boar, having slaughtered the animals in unlicensed premises. For various violations of slaughter regulations as well as for disregarding COVID restrictions, all identified recreational hunters were issued fines totalling approximately 20,000 euros.
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.
