3+ mon, 5+ day ago   (788+ words) KORA annual report 2025: double reproduction demonstrated in Switzerland for the first time – and what research has long known In 2025, two female wolves in the Valais Chablais pack reproduced in the same year for the first time in Switzerland. The KORA…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (363+ words) The cantonal press release uncritically adopts the celebratory rhetoric of the hobby hunting lobby. At Waldegg Castle in Feldbrunnen, on 9 July 2026, 15 graduates of the Solothurn hunting course were ceremonially welcomed into the ranks of active hobby hunters. Head of the…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (337+ words) The ban enters into force on 1 July 2025, marking a historic step: Switzerland is the first country in Europe to enshrine such a ban. At its meeting on 28 May 2025, the Federal Council adopted the dispatch on the popular initiative «Yes to…...

5+ mon, 4+ day ago   (389+ words) Lynx populations in the Simme-Saane region are recovering. In recent years, individual animals have been sighted repeatedly. The majestic lynx is a rare sight in the forests surrounding the Simme-Saane region in the Bernese Oberland. Yet thanks to intensive conservation…...

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…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1203+ words) In Switzerland, the brown bear is still considered "extinct" (regionally extinct) despite sporadic sightings, because no reproduction takes place. No females migrate in. Without females, there are no cubs; without cubs, there is no population. Switzerland has no bear reintroduction…...

6+ mon, 4+ day ago   (735+ words) The Milan Administrative Court has halted the hunting of chaffinches in Lombardy. "Tradition" does not justify an exception to EU bird protection regulations. A landmark ruling. In the summer of 2025, the right-wing populist government of Lombardy decided to allow recreational…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago   (639+ words) Despite this high density of regulations, the online display of dead wild animals remains largely unregulated. Animal welfare laws protect animals from pain and suffering, but do not explicitly regulate how their bodies may be presented in the media after…...

5+ day, 9+ 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…...