Petition: Boycott the cantons that massacre wolves

Proactively cancel holiday apartments, hotels, ski passes, hiking holidays, etc. in these cantons and stop buying products from there (raclette, fondue, Bündner Nusstorte, dairy products, wines and much more …). They can keep them for themselves.

Editorial Team Wild beim Wild — 2 February 2025

For more than 20 years, the wolf has been inhabiting Switzerland. Throughout all this time, there has not been a single objectively credible or fact-based incident in which a wolf approached a human with harmful intent.

We consumers have had enough of the naysayers and wolf haters, the backward-thinking and the ill-educated.

Where the wolf hunts, the forest and biodiversity.

Die irrsinnige Jagd auf Wölfe in der Schweiz

The massacre is Europe's most extreme

The massacre orchestrated by Federal Councillor Albert Rösti is the most extreme carried out in Europe since the species' recovery. The hobby hunting of innocent young animals, the arbitrary elimination of entire packs, the systematic shooting of “wrong wolves” as well as the waste of money and resources demonstrate: this is unworthy of a civilised country.

Wolves fulfil an important ecological and economic role. Almost half of all forests in Switzerland protect settlements or infrastructure from natural hazards. Wolves help the forest, in particular protective forests and forest regeneration.

Forests are essential for climate protection. Trees absorb carbon dioxide from the air and store it over the long term. A study by the University of Leeds shows that with the return of wolves, an additional one million tonnes of CO₂ could be sequestered per year. Particularly remarkable: the researchers calculated that each individual wolf would contribute to storing 6’080 tonnes of CO₂ annually. Based on current calculations of the value of CO₂, each animal would theoretically be worth around 170’000 francs. As studies demonstrate, hobby hunting fails as a means of population control.

Furthermore, the decision in favor of the massacres in various cantons contradicts the outcome of a national referendum in 2020.

You can also independently email the petition text to politicians or a party of your choice.

Dear decision-makers

The campaign is directed at the commercially-minded naysayers and wolf haters, the reactionaries and the poorly educated.

Where the wolf hunts, forests and biodiversity flourish.

That is why I, as a consumer, am participating in the boycott and am proactively canceling holiday apartments, hotels, ski passes, hiking holidays, etc. in these cantons, and am no longer purchasing products from there such as raclette, fondue, Bündner Nusstorte, dairy products, wines, and much more.

I am proactively canceling any product orders I may have already placed, also citing the reason “boycott due to wolf massacre”.

I note in my correspondence that I will avoid these regions and their products until the wolf massacre is definitively a thing of the past and species protection is respected.

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I join this criticism and furthermore protest until the now-decided culling of wolves has been fully reversed, Federal Councillor Albert Rösti has announced his resignation, and the wolf is henceforth protected in Switzerland without any conditions. The Geneva model shows that wildlife management works without hobby hunters.

Participate: Petition your municipality, in light of the catastrophic policies of Federal Councillor Albert Rösti (SVP), for a remission of federal and cantonal taxes on account of the recently approved culling of wolves in Switzerland. You can download the template letter here: https://wildbeimwild.com/ein-appell-fuer-eine-veraenderung-in-der-schweiz/