So, Germany has hunting regulations even more complex and restrictive than those in the US (which are already complex). But in both countries, hunting is largely practiced as an aid to conservation - thinning the herd, which would otherwise undergo horribly destructive boom-and-bust cycles for want of large predators.
I rather thought that European hunting was limited to specific hunting preserves. You guys have a lot denser population. I live within about an hour's drive of a mostly-forested park (a public-private partnership) that is larger than Slovenia, only slightly smaller than Belgium - about 2.5 million hectares. It's hardly surprising that it's managed differently. The park has a permanent human population of about 130,000.... and is located in the "densely populated" US Northeast. About half of it enjoys quite strict protection (IUCN classes 1b and 2). The largest contiguous area of Class 1b protection is about 80,000 hectares (and took me three-and-a-half days to hike across - the terrain is brutal). We have 'wild' boar here too - the descendants of escaped or intentionally released domestic swine. They're unbelievably destructive. Paradoxically, hunting them is banned entirely. The problem is that pigs travel in groups called 'sounders' - and shooting one pig will usually disperse the group, which will reform into two or more groups elsewhere. They breed fast enough that if 70-75% of a sounder isn't taken at once, hunting simply multiplies the problem. The current strategy is to get the pigs accustomed to traps, slowly baiting them in, and attempt to eradicate an entire sounder. (It also eliminates the incentive to breed them unlawfully for sport.) In any case, I think we both agree that hunting regulations are complex and varied enough that the specific details almost certainly don't belong in OSM, particularly in places where they change from one season to the next according to conservation needs. On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 3:33 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com > wrote: > > > sent from a phone > > > Il giorno 26 ott 2016, alle ore 19:39, Kevin Kenny < > kevin.b.kenny+...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > > > > In my part of the world, game animals are abundant enough, and public > forest lands are also abundant enough, that most hunters either hunt on > their own property or that of a club, or simply hunt on public land. > > > AFAIK in Germany you will have to lease a hunting "parcel"/area in order > to go hunting. You'll need a license in any case, both for hunting and for > having a firearm (hunting with traps is generally forbidden, not sure for > archery but I think it's forbidden as hunting method as well) (and another > 2 licenses, one for buying/making ammunition, another one for carrying the > weapon). The self-perception of hunters is typically that of someone > keeping the wildlife in the area in equilibrium, i.e. killing those game > that are "too much", mostly deer and wild boars, ill foxes etc., and they > will also feed "their animals" if deemed necessary, eg during tough winters. > > This said, there are numerous further restrictions, time based, according > to the kind of game, species... > > > cheers, > Martin > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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