5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (289+ words) On Sunday, 4 October 2026, at 10:30 am, a “Hunters' Mass” will take place in the parish church of St. Pankraz in Boswil (AG). The IG Wild beim Wild calls on those responsible at the parish concerned to refrain from giving hobby hunting…...

1+ week, 9+ 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, 4+ day ago   (614+ words) As long as the shooting continues in the canton, others bear the risk and the wild animals pay the price. It is high hunt season again in the canton of Grisons, and with it comes the annual guide on how…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1607+ words) The canton of Grisons plans to kill 4'616 red deer in 2026. An examination of the cantonal planning, the hunting regulations and the population data shows that behind this figure lie a permanent two-stage system, unanswered questions about the effectiveness of hobby…...

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…...

2+ week, 14+ hour ago   (797+ words) The highest quota of the current Asturian management cycle follows three court rulings that clearly limited or annulled earlier plans and their legal basis. A reader from Spain contacted IG Wild beim Wild this week. In Asturias, she wrote, the…...