Recreational Hunting
Recreational hunting has always been a controversial topic.
«The pleasure hunt»
Recreational hunting disrupts natural relationships
The recreational hunting plays no significant role in controlling the population size of wild animals. On the contrary: it disrupts the natural relationships between animals and often leads to agonising suffering.
Alternatives to recreational hunting
There are many ways to resolve human-wildlife conflicts: improving living conditions, deterrence and habitat protection. Recreational hunting fails as population control. Some countries have already banned certain forms of hunting. More on the topic of the Geneva model, animal welfare issues and animal rights.
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More on the subject of recreational hunting: In our dossiers on the criticism of recreational hunting gather fact-checks, analyses and background reports. 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.
