1+ week, 1+ day ago   (486+ words) Weapons and alcohol don't mix. Anyone carrying a rifle in the forest is allowed to drink without being checked. The Swiss Hunting Act and the cantonal implementing provisions contain no binding blood alcohol limit for armed hobby hunters. Alcohol at hobby…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago   (602+ words) Research by the Lega Abolizione Caccia, based on officially issued hunting licences, shows that only 0.8 percent of Italian citizens residing in the country were entitled to hobby hunting in the 2025/26 season. Hobby hunting is also losing relevance in the long…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1690+ words) Anyone who rejects the killing of animals on principle must nevertheless tolerate hobby hunting on their own land. A ruling from Bern shows how Switzerland is falling behind several European states that have long given legal weight to the ethical…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (568+ words) A new study in «Biological Conservation» calculates what the killing of 1.7 million foxes, mustelids and corvids per year in France actually achieves: no demonstrable benefit, but costs of up to 123 million euros annually Since mid-August, several associations in France have…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (568+ words) In Lower Saxony, a 90-year-old hobby hunter shoots his 65-year-old wife with a large-calibre hunting weapon and then takes his own life. On Wednesday lunchtime, 19 August 2026, at around 12.20 pm, the police were called to a house in Hepstedt following the…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (204+ words) How little hunting has to do with disease prevention is shown by the canton of Lucerne, the only one that systematically records the health status of shot foxes. Of 2,217 killed animals, only 39 showed signs of disease. More than 98 per cent…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (549+ words) How the Jura hunting president demonstrates that hobby hunting systematically undermines its own animal welfare and nature conservation claims. One and the same man serves as the figurehead of his association for this obligation, publicly opposes the return of wolf…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (253+ words) The author of “War and Peace” was himself a passionate hobby hunter for decades before he exposed the killing of non-human animals as a moral regression. Hardly any writer lived through hobby hunting as ambivalently as Leo Tolstoy. The lynx…...