Conservationists demand a stop to the shooting of national park wolves
Published: Friday, Oct 25th 2024, 11:00
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Several nature conservation organizations have appealed to the federal government and the canton of Graubünden to protect the wolves of the national park pack. The ordered killing of these animals must be stopped. The extermination of this pack lacks any sense of proportion.
The nature conservation organizations are appealing to the federal government and the canton to assume their scientific, ethical and political responsibility in the area surrounding the national park and to work together to find proportionate solutions. The organizations BirdLife, Group Wolf Switzerland, Pro Natura and WWF wrote this in a joint press release on Friday.
In this case, the legal leeway was more than exhausted, criticized the nature conservation organizations: "Without consideration of the special position of the national park, without weighing up the interests and without efforts to find alternative solutions." The only national park in Switzerland should be the place where solutions for the coexistence of man and nature are found, preferably without guns.
In September, the Federal Office for the Environment approved an application from the canton of Graubünden to shoot the entire Fuorn wolf pack living in the Engadin National Park. Shooting is possible from November 1. However, the pack must be shot outside the park, as it is considered a strictly protected wilderness.
According to the Graubünden wildlife authority, the national park pack had killed two cattle outside the park. According to the research commission of the Swiss National Park, however, at least one of the two cattle was killed by a female calf that was no longer part of the pack.
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