Another step taken against animal abusers
After Peter C. from Grossjena shot several fox cubs and posted photos of the dead young animals on Facebook, PETA filed a criminal complaint.
After Peter C. from Grossjena shot several fox cubs and posted photos of the dead young animals on Facebook, PETA filed a criminal complaint.
40 daily fines for recreational hunter
The animal rights organisation also reported the recreational hunter to the public order and regulatory office. Shattered skulls indicated that shots had been fired at close range. One of the young animals was missing a leg, suggesting that the animal had attempted to flee after the first shots. The recreational hunter was convicted and sentenced to 40 daily fines.
Anyone who has cruelly killed young animals and even brags about it on Facebook must be severely punished.
Dr. Edmund Haferbeck, Head of the Legal and Scientific Department at PETA
Fox hunting counterproductive and cruel
Foxes serve recreational hunters primarily as living targets. Recreational hunting for foxes has no regulatory effect on the population, as losses are quickly offset by immigration and rising birth rates. Fox populations regulate themselves through social structures, food availability, and disease.
In Luxembourg, fox hunting has been banned since April 2015. Such a ban is long overdue in Germany — which is why PETA has launched a corresponding petition.
RECREATIONAL HUNTER RADAR
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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.
