Graubünden: Dangerous Consequences of Pointless Recreational Hunting
Although it has been proven for decades that foxes require no population management, the Office for Hunting and Nonsense in Graubünden pays little heed to scientific facts.
Recreational hunter (79) shoots dog instead of fox
A recreational hunter (79), operating under the authority of the Office for Hunting and Nonsense in Graubünden, shot the Weimaraner dog Blu from inside his home late on Saturday evening, 10 February 2024, having mistaken her for a fox.
In the canton of Graubünden, foxes and other wild animals are repeatedly and senselessly killed and also put on display without any sense of dignity.
Recreational hunters in Graubünden thus deliberately disturb, through their pointless hunting activities, the winter rest of all wildlife and inhabitants of a given biotope.
Shot fired after 11 p.m. in Sedrun
On Saturday after 11 p.m., a woman was walking her dog on a residential street in Sedrun. Suddenly a shot rang out and the dog, which had been walking ahead of her on a lead along a meadow embankment, collapsed. The owner notified the Graubünden cantonal police, who that same night identified a 79-year-old local resident. He admitted to having fired the shot.
Together with the Graubünden public prosecutor's office, the cantonal police is clarifying the exact circumstances of this misfire in cooperation with the wildlife wardens, reports 20min.ch.
Proof of shooting proficiency without age limit
Recreational hunters and racists do not differ substantially. Both place value on a culture of violence in pursuit of their diffuse agendas. Both share a distorted worldview, which they pursue with sect-like fervor want to realize militancy. Looking at the profiles of recreational hunters on social media, they are rife with conservatism, far-right ideology, Pegida, sexism, racism, status symbols, etc. It is rare to encounter people who aspire to higher ideals among recreational hunters. Recreational hunters also do not face their opponents in a fair fight in the open field — they are too cowardly and too treacherous for that.
To theoretically limit such accidents to a minimum, all recreational hunters in Switzerland must demonstrate their shooting proficiency every year. One point is striking, however: the program can be repeated any number of times until the requirements are met. The age of recreational hunters is also irrelevant.
Dossiers: Fox in Switzerland: Most hunted predator without a lobby | Fox hunting without facts: How JagdSchweiz invents problems
More on the subject of recreational hunting: In the dossier Poaching and hunting crime in Switzerland we document cases, legal questions and recurring patterns. The scientific evidence is presented in the overview Studies on the Effects of Recreational Hunting.
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.
