Ticino: 1,100 wild boars shot dead

880 recreational hunters took part in the first summer wild boar hunt in Ticino. 1,100 animals were killed. Population control through shooting is failing.

Wild beim Wild editorial team · 12 August 2023

First summer wild boar hunting season

The summer hunt was introduced for the first time this year in Ticino, in order to curb the population of these animals.

In the first summer wild boar hunting season, which began on 2 June and ended on 31 July, a total of 880 recreational hunters took part across almost the entire canton.

In total, 1,100 animals were killed: 566 in the Lugano area, 234 in the Locarno area, 173 in the Mendrisiotto area, 100 in the Bellinzona area and 27 in the Rivera district.

Recreational hunting lets the species multiply

In accordance with federal regulations, stalking was carried out in June at dusk and dawn in the meadows, and in July at night from elevated positions in the forest.

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High hunt begins soon

The new season, that of the high hunt, which also targets red deer, roe deer and chamois, begins soon. It is scheduled from 2 to 16 and 22 to 26 September.

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.