Groningen bans all forms of recreational hunting
Groningen is the northeasternmost province of the Netherlands. It borders East Frisia and the Emsland region to the east. To the north lies the North Sea. Neighbouring provinces are Drenthe and Friesland. The capital is Groningen.
“Ceasefire”
Recreational hunting banned on municipal land
Alderperson Kirsten de Wrede (Party for the Animals) has banned the shooting of animals on properties owned by the municipality. Recreational hunting for pleasure was already banned; now “hunting for management and damage limitation” has been added to the prohibition.
“We see animals as co-inhabitants of our planet and therefore want to treat them better,” says the city councillor. “Animals are not only shot dead, but also wounded. Many geese can no longer make their winter migration because they are too badly injured.”
Scaring animals away instead of killing them
Farmers can contact the municipality to claim compensation for damages. “There are several things a farmer can do to prevent damage. Animals can be scared away, for example,” says De Wrede. Recreational hunting fails as a means of population control. More on the topic of the Geneva model and hunting legislation.
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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. 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.
