Spain: Protest against exclusion of hunting dogs
Thousands protest in Madrid against an animal welfare law that excludes hunting dogs. The parliamentary vote is imminent.
«Killing is not a sport»
Thousands of people marched through the centre of Madrid on Sunday to protest against a planned animal welfare law that excludes hunting dogs.
The protest takes place four days before the parliamentary vote on the new animal welfare law. Demonstrators held signs reading «Killing is not a sport» and chanted «Stop recreational hunting».
5 billion euro hunting industry
In Spain, dogs are used to track animals such as deer, wild boar and rabbits. The hunting industry generates more than 5 billion euros annually.
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More on the subject of recreational hunting: In the dossier The Role and Criticism of Recreational Hunters we shed light on the training, power and self-image of recreational hunters. 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.
