1+ week, 17+ 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+ mon, 3+ week ago   (402+ words) While an emblematic species of the pre-Alps disappears from the canton of Fribourg, the hobby hunting lobby is demanding more night vision devices and an earlier roe deer buck hunt. Two reports from the canton of Fribourg do not fit…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (700+ words) The country's own audit office classifies the forestry authority's population data as unverifiable, yet the kill figure rises regardless. Latvia has raised the permitted kill volume for wolves for the 2026/2027 season from 370 to 400 animals; the hunting season has been running…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (242+ words) The lion was not killed with a rifle but with bow and arrow, a method regarded among hobby hunters as particularly “challenging”, but which in fact carries a higher risk of an imprecise, agonisingly slow death for the animal. Between…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (278+ words) How wolves communicate through urine and why this could be a route to non-lethal herd protection. At the end of June 2026, the Swiss National Science Foundation presented a study by the University of Neuchatel that examines how wolf packs react…...

4+ mon, 4+ week ago   (236+ words) In the Trophy hunting this connection becomes even clearer: the public display of killed animals functions as a status signal that simultaneously generates widespread rejection across society. Hobby hunters face no such consequences, even though the basic principle is identical:…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (474+ words) At the Stadlersee in Stadel near Niederglatt ZH, a hobby hunter shot and killed a pair of Egyptian geese last Saturday. The male was found floating dead in the lake; the female was shot in an adjacent field. Walkers and…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (278+ words) Enter a search term above and press Enter to start the search. Press Esc to cancel. The district of Vorpommern-Rügen, for example, is currently urging people to leave dead waterfowl where possible, because they are part of the ecological cycle…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (812+ words) France is a special case in Europe: The French Office for Biodiversity (OFB) has been systematically recording hunting accidents for years and publishing annual reports – a practice that does not exist in most European countries. This transparency comes at a…...