1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (801+ words) The Susten Pass and Rouchgrat are becoming the shooting backdrop for hobby hunting " complete with a festival catering tent, a weapons trade fair and young hunters. And later, the very same circles complain about "too much disturbance" to the wildlife....

1+ week, 7+ hour ago  (372+ words) On 19 July 2026, the Swiss Hunting Museum once again debates a controversial hunting method, with a female bow hunter as speaker and an active hobby hunter as moderator. As early as 14 June 2026, the same organiser had held a panel discussion on…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (557+ words) Shot around 15 minutes too late: the Higher Court of Nidwalden upheld a total claim of over 8, 000 francs. A hobby hunter in the canton of Nidwalden killed two red deer around 15 minutes after the end of the permitted shooting hours. On…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (481+ words) The TAR Pescara bases its ruling on the case law of the European Court of Human Rights. In Italy, an administrative court has for the first time recognised that a landowner can have hobby hunting on their own land banned…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (173+ words) Study commissioned by the cantonal government refutes hunting lobby narratives " Geneva model moves closer. The Lucerne-based lawyer Pascal Wolf has submitted petitions in over twelve cantons to examine the scientific necessity of fox hunting. We would like to send you…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (351+ words) A single training evening is enough for hobby hunters to be allowed to shoot wolves in future. The Schwyz cantonal government has revised the cantonal hunting and wildlife protection ordinance. The canton writes that the interested hunters will be "trained…...

1+ mon, 13+ hour ago  (582+ words) Six men hunted red deer and piglets to death at night using a 4x4. On 4 June 2026, the public prosecutor in Bourges demanded imprisonment and the withdrawal of their licences. The public prosecutor demanded between five and fourteen months of suspended sentence,…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (325+ words) The Veterinary Service of Aargau confirms in writing that the Swiss Hunting Fair at the Umwelt Arena Spreitenbach was neither registered nor inspected on site. The municipality of Spreitenbach, which filed a criminal complaint over 850 protest emails, has left three…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (497+ words) EU Regulation No 1143/2014 contains no obligation to kill. Rescue centres are explicitly exempt. Non-lethal measures such as neutering are legally permissible " and already successfully applied in practice in Kassel. The German Animal Welfare Federation publicly and unequivocally contradicts the NRW…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (478+ words) On 2, 587 km, nature regulates itself without kill quotas. Data from ten large protected areas provide the proof. 2, 587 square kilometres, ten countries, one finding: where hobby hunting is banned, nature regulates itself. Long-term scientific studies from major European protected areas show…...