Politics Environmental organizations withdraw complaints about wolf regulation
Several Swiss nature conservation organizations have withdrawn their complaints regarding the wolf shooting permits in the cantons of Graubünden and Valais. These had been pending since winter 2023 and were still based on the transitional ordinance.
15.01.2025, 09:50
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The organizations are now focusing on compliance with the new legal basis by the federal government and cantons, as Pro Natura, WWF Switzerland and Birdlife Switzerland jointly announced on Wednesday. The revised hunting ordinance came into force on February 1 and provides a new legal basis with clearer and stricter conditions for wolf shooting.
The relationship between wolf regulations and damage is now presented more clearly and the positive effect of wolf populations on protection forests must be taken into account by the cantons, the statement continued. The recent downgrading of the protection status of the wolf in the Bern Convention does not change this. However, the weakening of herd protection in the new ordinance remains incomprehensible to the nature conservation organizations.
The focus is now on next summer, when the federal government and cantons will have to comply with the new legal basis and the hunting authorities will have to work carefully, the communiqué said. The organizations want to closely examine future shooting orders. The withdrawal of the old complaints is also an offer to the Confederation and cantons to pragmatically promote the coexistence of wolves and alpine farming through dialogue.
