White-tailed eagle shot: recreational hunter convicted
It is the first time that a recreational hunter in Germany has been identified and convicted with the help of transmitter data.
GPS transmitter exposes recreational hunter
A recreational hunter from Salzwedel has been sentenced to a fine of 1’800 euros for killing a strictly protected white-tailed eagle. His hunting licence was confiscated. The accused was undone by a GPS transmitter attached to the eagle.
Over 2’384 victims since 2005
In the years 2005 to 2022, over 1’716 cases involving more than 2’384 victims of illegal raptor persecution became known in Germany, including 70 white-tailed eagles. “The number of unreported cases is extremely high,” according to LIFE EUROKITE. More on the topic of crime and hunting and species conservation.
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More on the subject of recreational hunting: In the dossier Poaching and hunting crime in Switzerland we document cases, legal questions and recurring patterns. 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.
