Switzerland is a small country partly in the Alps in central Europe, with typical mountain animals, such as Alpine Ibex and Alpine Chamois. In order to obtain a hunting license in Switzerland is very complicated, so that the procedure has to start at least one year before the hunt up to January 15th for every year.
Foreigners can obtain the license for Ibex and Chamois hunt through a process of bidding. To get the license each hunter has to send, one year before the hunt, two photographs, a copy of a valid passport and USD 4.
Though they are out of range, the male is nervous, and regularly retreats to the cover of the trees. Sometimes, through the binoculars, it feels as if he is looking straight at us, wary and distrustful. The female wanders around, relaxed. The pair are destined to spend one more day together.
They keep their distance for the evening, and it is impossible to get close enough to shoot without being seen. Thomas will shoot his chamois 24 hours later in the same pasture from a better position. The sun has set and the light is rapidly fading when we pack up and begin the trek back to the hut where the men will spend the night.
The curtain goes down on the hunt but it will rise again in the morning for more tension, tragedy and spectacle. Nine cantons operate a territorial hunting system where communes grant hunting rights to hunting groups. Geneva is the only canton where hobby hunting is banned and the cull is carried out by wildlife rangers. Based on figures, the most popular animals hunted in autumn are roe deer 43, , red deer 11, and chamois 11, The Swiss Hunting Association estimates there are 30, active hunters in Switzerland, including 1, women.
Hunting is widely accepted in Switzerland as an effective way to keep wild animal populations at sustainable levels. The demand for game outstrips supply in Swiss restaurants and supermarkets, with more than two-thirds of game imported.
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Some species are located only in certain parts of the country but the densest and most varied game population is found in southwestern Finland.
This is also where we are located. Our main hunting and fishing areas, including the unique southern archipelago, which is no less than in the middle of the main migration route exceeds well over hectares. Also best fishing is located in Southern Finland. Finland is also the most important producer of many waterfowl species in the European Union. During this period, hunting became a privilege of nobility , and the right to practise it was directly linked to the right to land ownership.
Poaching , which had been relatively well tolerated until then, was now severely punished and non-noble people were formally prohibited from hunting. According to the royal ordinance that came into force in March , hunting was actually seen as a waste of time that should be spent on working the land. The Revolution abolished this aristocratic privilege and the democratisation of the practice led to a wave of widespread hunting which damaged the forest ecosystem and caused some species to become extinct in certain areas.
To preserve wildlife, permits were introduced under Napoleon I, placing limits on when and where hunting could take place. This situation encouraged poaching, either for food or to sell commodities derived from animals, such as fur. Nowadays, hunting is strictly regulated.
To obtain a permit, the applicant must sit an exam , and follow other laws such as those governing fire arms. Hunting has mainly become a leisure activity designed to regulate populations of game.
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