The Hunting Critic
A hunting critic examines the practices and impacts of recreational hunting critically. The role ranges from anti-hunting advocacy to demanding regulation.
Raising awareness of impacts
Hunting critics examine the practices and impacts of recreational hunting critically. Their role is to raise awareness of the effects on the environment and the animals involved.
Recreational hunting is demonstrably inadequate
No country in the world has a higher proportion of endangered species than Switzerland. More than a third of plant, animal and fungal species are considered threatened. Recreational hunting fails as a population control mechanism. More on the topic: Geneva model, animal welfare issues and studies.
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More on the subject of recreational hunting: 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.
