Film: The Wolf in the Crosshairs – Protection or Culling?
The wolf has been back in Switzerland for 20 years and has established itself as an emotionally charged political issue. Right-wing politicians are pushing for extensive containment measures, as the wolf is multiplying and causing damage to livestock.
The hunting ordinance imposed in 2023 now permits the culling of two thirds of the wolf population.
Biologist and former deputy director of the Federal Office for the Environment Willy Geiger states that preventive regulation is likely to be counterproductive.
Culling promotes reproduction and immigration
New gaps in territory encourage wolves to reproduce even further and allow new wolves to migrate into the resource-rich Swiss wilderness. There are better ways to enable coexistence between wolves and alpine farming.
«NZZ Format» shows shepherdesses and shepherds who successfully protect themselves against the wolf, as well as activists documenting a Valais pack, and accompanies a wildlife warden in the canton of St. Gallen in his new, demanding work of hunting the wolf.
Participatory action: Demand a tax remission request from your municipality for federal and cantonal taxes on the grounds of the catastrophic policies of Federal Councillor Albert Rösti (SVP) and the recently approved culling of wolves in Switzerland. You can download the template letter here: https://wildbeimwild.com/ein-appell-fuer-eine-veraenderung-in-der-schweiz/
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.
