Songs
These songs give wild animals a voice that is often missing in the public debate about hobby hunting.
Music that moves. It connects, raises awareness and brings 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 wild animals a voice that is too often missing in the debate about hobby hunting.
You can download them, share them, distribute them or use them yourself — whether in the classroom, on social media, at events or simply for listening.
Tip: Make your favourite song your mobile phone ringtone. That way you carry the message for wild animals with you in everyday life and spark conversation along the way.
Our message is clear: wild animals do not need bullets, but protection. And every voice counts – yours too.
Join in, spread the songs and help us to strengthen a new narrative about how we treat wild animals.
Note for iPhone and iPad: Press and hold the song title and select «Save to Files». On Android and desktop the download works with a normal click.
As a playlist: YouTube
Wild animals and their families
Songs that put individual species and their social lives at the centre.
It tells of the fox at night, stalked with searchlights and night-vision targeting 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 that remains in 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 shot.
It tells of the social fabric within the pack, torn apart by killings.
It tells of the wild boars' family group, 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 for pseudo-medicine.
It is about the cruel den-training facilities 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 the 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 stalks the animals.
It names the consequences of bow hunting for the animal that is hit.
It is about 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 is about the night as a last refuge, penetrated by night-vision technology.
It shows how the stone marten is hunted as an alleged «cable biter» and poultry raider, even though structural solutions such as marten grilles would help instead of a shot.
Psychology and Customs of Hobby Hunters
The perpetrator's perspective, rituals, and the passing on from generation to generation.
«Confession from the High Seat»
It looks behind the façade of «hunting ethics» and tradition on the high seat.
It asks about the threshold crossed with the first shot.
«Sworn»
It is about the promise we owe to wild animals, against the logic of hobby hunting.
«Heirloom»
It questions how the hunting weapon and hunting tradition are handed down 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 how we treat 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 all the way to its end.
It takes aim at the self-image of hobby hunters, who like to glorify their deeds as a higher calling.
It exposes how customs and feathered adornments glorify killing into tradition.
Lobby, Myths and Whitewashing
The mechanisms, myths, and language behind hobby hunting.
It takes apart the «hunters' tall tales», the myths with which hobby hunting justifies its deeds.
It dismantles the myth of «husbandry», which in the end still leads to 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 is about animals 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 controls those who, in the name of husbandry, decide over the life and death of wild animals.
It questions the authority with which decisions are made over the lives of wild animals in the forest.
It exposes killing as a leisure pastime that disguises itself as a necessity.
«Removal»
It exposes the euphemistic language of the authorities that turns a kill into a harmless “removal”.
It questions how the killing of wild animals is sold as a nature-friendly “product from the forest”.
It exposes the nature romanticism with which hobby hunting glorifies its forest into a sanctuary.
Regions and politics
Specific locations 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 spotlight on the Valais killing practice and its hunting policy.
It is about wild animals that know no borders, while protection and killing end at the border.
It tells of animals such as the wolf that travel long distances and in the end still meet the kill.
Loss, death and silence
Grief for the animal that was killed 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, to the place where hunting and displacement come to an end.
It asks who is ultimately left of the hunted populations.
It tells of the capercaillie, which was hunted during its courtship display and whose habitat has almost vanished through hobby hunting and forestry.
It recalls the animals and the silence that are missing in a stripped-bare natural world.
It calls by its name what stands at the end of the high seat and the baiting site.
It is about an animal's last grazing before the shot is fired.
It is a quiet song for all those animals that appear in no kill statistics.
It makes visible the suffering that takes place in the forest away from the public eye.
It is about the awareness and the fear of the animals, which know all too well what threatens them.
It is about those who are silenced, and it gives them a voice.
Habitat and Seasons
Migration, winter coat and the threatened habitat of wild animals.
It deals with the coat change of animals such as the mountain hare, whose camouflage becomes a deadly trap with climate change.
It deals with animals in their winter coat, which become easy targets in the snow.
It follows the trail in the snow, which at once reveals life and enables pursuit.
«In the Shadow of the Hedgerows»
It deals with the refuges in the cultivated landscape, which are becoming ever scarcer for wild animals.
It deals with the return of wild animals such as the beaver or otter to renaturalised waters.
It honours what wild animals such as the beaver create for their habitat, rather than seeing them as a disruptive factor.
It follows the narrow paths along which wild animals travel between safety and danger.
Hope, Protection and Return
The counter-vision: peace, protection and the return of wild animals.
It deals with the right of wild animals to return to their ancestral habitats.
«Return»
It celebrates the return of species thought lost and the right of wild animals to their place.
It is an appeal to lay down the weapons and grant wild animals peace.
«An Old Promise Rings Out in the Forest»
It celebrates the promise to protect the forest and its inhabitants rather than hunt them.
It lets the forest itself speak, against the noise of hobby hunting.