What Do Recreational Hunters Actually Do in Winter?
Not every recreational hunter is a shooting fanatic — but every recreational hunter is a killer. No one has a mandate to kill. It is their choice to kill and their choice to “manage and nurture” what they later kill. Hunting is often referred to as a passion, but it is always based on a dubious disposition.
No Reasonable Justification for Small Game Hunting
As in January and December, the self-proclaimed predator also disturbs all wildlife in forests and fields in February, for example through the pathological recreational hunting of healthy foxes.
Under the Animal Protection Act (Art. 26 TSchG), a “reasonable justification” must exist for the killing of an animal. In the case of recreational hunting, however, it is mostly nothing more than the gratification of a bloody hobby. Recreational hunting fails as population control.
The Recreational Hunter in Winter
In the primordial state — that is, where no recreational hunter has disturbed life and biodiversity in nature — there are wildlife populations that adapt dynamically. It is above all the recreational hunters who make wildlife shy. They put wildlife in a permanent state of war and siege. More on the topic of animal welfare issues of recreational hunting and crime and hunting.
Dossiers: Fox in Switzerland: Most Hunted Predator Without a Lobby | Fox Hunting Without Facts: How JagdSchweiz Invents Problems
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More on the subject of recreational hunting: In the dossier The Role and Criticism of Recreational Hunters we shed light on the training, power and self-image of recreational hunters. 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.
