Germany: No Data on Damage Caused by Invasive Species
Most of the non-native vertebrate species living in the wild in Germany were intentionally introduced as pets, zoo animals, or livestock: the import vectors of ornamental trade and wildlife parks account for more than 70 percent and are the most significant. Fisheries, aquaculture, animal husbandry, and hunting also rank among the important import vectors for wild-living non-native vertebrate species.
No Data on Damage
The Federal Ministry for the Environment is forced, in a response to an AfD inquiry to admit: «The Federal Government has no information on the forestry or agricultural damage caused by invasive non-native animal species.»
Figures Pulled from Thin Air
The numerous claims circulating in the media and among hunting associations about major damage caused by invasive animals are highly questionable. The raccoon is not even mentioned in the statement. Such cost figures have simply been pulled from thin air. More on the topic of Wildlife, Species Conservation and Studies.
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More on the subject of recreational hunting: 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.
