Pride: The Error Lies with the Recreational Hunter
Biogenetic predispositions and early childhood relationship experiences explain the killing behaviour of recreational hunters.
The error lies with the recreational hunter
«In the Green Temple»
Popularity ratings of recreational hunters disastrous
Popularity ratings of recreational hunters are equally disastrous on social media.
From a biogenetic perspective, today's hunting behaviour can be explained as an interplay of genetic predisposition, early childhood relationship experiences, and unhealthy upbringing influences. Those who practise hunting are predominantly men. Furthermore, violence damages the brain and meat consumption causes it to shrink, according to current research.
A cry for help to Wild beim Wild
«Help ensure that these green-coated fellows and their green gun-toting women are put out of business. Watch over your children, for children in particular can very quickly be taken in by these green jackets.»
Hunters' tall tales and brown-shirt ideology do not differ substantially. Both camps place value on a culture of violence in pursuit of their diffuse agendas. Both hold a distorted worldview, which they seek to realise with cult-like militancy.
Hunters' tall tales detector
What type of person hides behind the recreational hunter? Does the recreational hunter, with his particular psychological profile, even fit into today's society any longer? Is the “noble art of hunting” still compatible with modern animal and nature conservation principles?
Wildlife management with firearms does not belong in the hands of recreational hunters — an ever-growing number of people agree on this. Hunters' folklore is not science. What is needed is an uprising of the decent.
Recreational hunters bring recreational hunting stress, panic and chaos into the highly sensitive social fabric of wildlife. Their reproductive behavior is thereby manipulated, so that correspondingly more offspring are conceived and losses are quickly compensated. Recreational hunters regulate nothing permanently — they only destroy, decimate, manipulate, and stimulate.
Recreational hunting is counterproductive
To explain this with regard to wild boar: In a functioning wild boar sounder, the scent emissions of pheromones by the lead sow normally result in mating and offspring only once a year. If this animal is missing because it has been shot, the consequence is uncontrolled reproduction by all sexually mature females in the sounder.
The hunting of foxes is also not without responsibility for the annual economic damage in the cultivated landscape. Added to this is a direct connection to regional outbreaks of disease, for example among foxes.
In Yellowstone National Park, wolves were reintroduced in 1995, after the land had become barren and desolate due to an overpopulation of deer and roe deer. Something remarkable happened: the wolves not only killed game, but also coyotes — as a result, there were once again more rabbits and mice, which in turn attracted birds of prey. The wolves even influenced the course of rivers.
Misplaced pride
According to Wild beim Wild, the only far-reaching solution can be the radical reform of recreational hunting, toward a professional wildlife management system with game wardens and birth control where needed.
Every recreational hunter should therefore endeavor to leave this disreputable company and lead an upright life.
Interest Group Wild beim Wild
The IG Wild beim Wild is a non-profit interest group committed to the sustainable and non-violent improvement of the human-animal relationship, with a specialization in the legal aspects of wildlife protection. One of our main concerns is to introduce a contemporary and serious wildlife management system in the cultivated landscape, modeled on the Canton of Geneva — without recreational hunters, but with principled game wardens who truly deserve the title and act according to a code of honor. The monopoly on the use of force belongs in the hands of the state. The IG supports scientific methods of immunocontraception for wild animals.
More on the subject of recreational hunting: In the dossier Psychology of recreational hunting we put research, motives and social consequences into perspective. 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.
