1+ week, 16+ 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, 1+ day ago   (374+ words) Wild beim Wild is documenting the 2026/27 hunting season in Valais on an ongoing basis. The ticker features official announcements, incidents, violations, kills and other notable events – updated chronologically. Valais officially opens the 2026/27 hobby hunting season on 21 September and intends to…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (314+ words) Grisons bans night vision technology and the baiting of cloven-hoofed game as unsporting. Yet for wild boar hunting the canton authorises precisely this technology, for foxes it permits bait sites and night hunting, and the mobile phone, once prohibited, is…...

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…...

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…...