Why Do We Protect Wildlife?
There are many reasons to protect wildlife: biodiversity, ecosystem preservation, and ethical responsibility. Animals have an intrinsic value.
Animals Are Sentient Beings
There are many reasons why we should advocate for the protection of wildlife, including the preservation of biodiversity, ecosystems, and moral obligation. Animals are sentient beings with the right to a dignified life.
Recreational Hunting Creates Distance Rather Than Closeness to Nature
In hunting-free areas, we observe that wildlife does not flee in panic. A familiar atmosphere of peace between humans and animals prevails. Recreational hunting fails as a means of population control. More on the topic of the Geneva model and animal welfare issues.
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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.
