Songs
These songs give a voice to wild animals, a voice that is often missing in the public debate about hobby hunting.
Music that moves. It connects, raises awareness and carries issues to places where arguments are often no longer heard. That is precisely why we make our anti-hunting songs freely available – no copyright, no restrictions.
Each of these songs gives a voice to wild animals, a voice that is too often missing in the debate about hobby hunting.
You can download, share, distribute or use them yourself – whether in the classroom, on social media, at events or simply to listen to.
Tip: Turn your favourite song into a ringtone for your phone. That way you carry the message for wild animals with you every day and provide a talking point along the way.
Our message is clear: wild animals don't need bullets, they need protection. And every voice counts – including yours.
Join in, share the songs and help us strengthen a new narrative about how we treat wild animals.
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Wild animals and their families
Songs that put individual species and their social lives centre stage.
It tells of the fox at night, pursued with spotlights and night-vision technology.
It is about the black grouse in the sensitive habitat of the raised bog, where hunting and disturbance weigh especially heavily.
It tells of the killing of the strongest red deer as a trophy and of the genetic loss left to the forest when the best of the population is hung on the wall.
It leads into the fox or badger den, to the place where animals seek shelter and yet are not safe.
It sees in the wild animal a kindred being rather than an object to be killed.
It tells of the social fabric of the pack, torn apart by killings.
It tells of the family group of wild boars, torn apart by hunting.
It tells of the marmot, which lives in a family group, protects its clan with its warning whistle and is hunted for its fat and pseudo-medicine.
It is about the cruel artificial dens in which hunting dogs are trained on live foxes for earth hunting.
Hunting methods and equipment
The concrete practice of hobby hunting: driving, traps, bait, technology.
It depicts how wild animals are startled, chased and driven in front of the guns during a driven hunt, and what this form of hunting means for the animals.
It depicts the chase with dogs from the perspective of the hunted animals.
It tells of the deliberate luring of wild animals to salt licks, to the place where the shot awaits.
It is about the camouflage and equipment with which hobby hunting pursues the animals.
It names the consequences of bow hunting for the animal that is hit.
It deals with the traces that lead-based ammunition leaves in animals and the environment.
It exposes the fallacy that more kills sustainably regulate populations, even though hunting can stimulate reproduction.
It deals with the night as the last refuge, which is penetrated by night-vision targeting technology.
It shows how the stone marten is hunted as an alleged “cable biter” and poultry raider, even though structural solutions such as marten grids would help instead of the shot.
Psychology and Customs of Hobby Hunters
Perpetrator perspective, rituals and the handing down from generation to generation.
«Confession from the High Seat»
It looks behind the facade of “waidgerechtigkeit” and custom on the high seat.
«Whoever Once Pulls the Trigger»
It asks about the threshold that is crossed with the first shot.
«Sworn»
It deals with the promise we owe to wild animals, against the logic of hobby hunting.
«Heirloom»
It questions how the hunting weapon and hunting tradition are passed on as an heirloom from generation to generation.
It asks what it does to children when they are introduced early to the killing of animals.
It asks what we pass on to the next generation about dealing with wild animals.
It is the promise not to hand down the tradition of killing to the next generation.
«What Begins at the High Seat»
It traces the chain that begins at the high seat to its end.
It takes aim at the self-image of hobby hunters, who like to glorify their doings as a higher calling.
It exposes how custom and feather adornment glorify killing into tradition.
Lobby, Myths and Whitewashing
The mechanisms, myths and the language behind hobby hunting.
It takes apart the “hunters’ yarn”, the myths with which hobby hunting justifies its doings.
It dismantles the myth of “husbandry”, which in the end nevertheless culminates in the kill.
It names the entanglements between hunting associations, authorities and politics.
It shows how predators such as the wolf are made into scapegoats.
It deals with animals that are raised and released for the sole purpose of later being released for the kill, a life as merchandise for hobby hunting.
It poses the uncomfortable question of oversight and responsibility in hunting, namely who actually monitors those who, in the name of game management, decide over the life and death of wild animals.
It questions the authority with which the lives of wild animals in the forest are disposed of.
It exposes killing as a leisure pastime that disguises itself as necessity.
«Removal»
It exposes the euphemistic language of the authorities, which turns a kill into a harmless «removal».
It questions how the killing of wild animals is sold as a natural «product from the forest».
It exposes the romanticised view of nature with which hobby hunting glorifies its forest into a sanctuary.
Regions and politics
Concrete settings and hunting policy in Switzerland and beyond.
It reminds us that a life without hobby hunting is possible, in the canton of Geneva for over fifty years.
It turns the focus onto the Valais killing practice and the hunting policy there.
It is about wild animals that know no borders, while protection and killing end at the border.
It tells of animals like the wolf, which travel long distances only to meet the kill in the end.
Loss, death and silence
Mourning for the killed animal and the emptiness that remains.
It is about the silence that remains once the shot has faded away in the forest.
«Red snow»
It shows the trace that a kill leaves in the snow in winter.
It turns a kill figure back into an individual with its own story.
It tells of the last of its kind, there where hunting and displacement end.
It asks who, of the hunted populations, is ultimately still left.
It tells of the capercaillie, which was hunted during its courtship display and whose habitat has almost disappeared through hobby hunting and forestry.
It recalls the animals and the silence that are missing in a cleared-out nature.
It names what stands at the end of the high seat and the baiting site.
It is about the last feeding of an animal before the shot falls.
It is a quiet song for all those animals that appear in no kill statistics.
It makes visible the suffering that plays out away from the public eye in the forest.
It is about the awareness and fear of animals that know all too well what threatens them.
It is about those who are silenced, and gives them a voice.
Habitat and Seasons
Migration, winter coat and the threatened habitat of wild animals.
It is about the coat change of animals such as the mountain hare, whose camouflage becomes a deadly trap with climate change.
It is about animals in their winter coat, which become an easy target in the snow.
It follows the trail in the snow, which at once reveals life and enables pursuit.
It is about the refuges in the cultivated landscape, which are becoming ever scarcer for wild animals.
It is about the return of wild animals such as the beaver or the otter to renaturalised waters.
It honours what wild animals such as the beaver create for the habitat, rather than seeing them as a nuisance.
It follows the narrow trails on which wild animals travel between protection and danger.
Hope, Protection and Return
The counter-vision: peace, protection and the return of the wild animals.
It is about the right of wild animals to return to their ancestral habitats.
«Return»
It sings of the return of species believed lost and the right of wild animals to their place.
It is an appeal to lay down the weapons and give the wild animals peace.
«In the Forest an Old Promise Resounds»
It sings of the promise to protect the forest and its inhabitants rather than to hunt them.
It lets the forest itself speak, against the noise of hobby hunting.