Foreign hunters kill hundreds of wild game in Hungary
Hunting may be a controversial topic nowadays, but it has a long tradition in Hungary. The hunting etiquette consists of a series of codes and principles that people who pursue this sport ought to respect.
Sonline was the first to report about the trophies of a three-day hunting event at a popular hunting ground called Zselic in the south-western Somogy county.
According to the site, Zselic is an increasingly popular hunting location among Hungarian and foreign huntsmen. It is considered to be rich in wild game and hunting tourism greatly benefits the National Hungarian Hunting Chamber.
Sokszínűvidék wrote that due to the pandemic and the related restrictions, many German and Austrian hobby hunters could not enter Hungary. Foreign hunters are now happy that they can visit the hunting grounds without restrictions.
Source: facebook.com/sefaghunting/
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The large wild game stock of Somogy county attracts many hunters from abroad.
János Meiszterics, the president of the Tapsony és Vidéke Petőfi Vadásztársaság (Tapsony and Area Hunting Association) said that the region’s high quality wild game stock is abundant. He also added that he would prefer if the cold winter weather would remain, so that wild animals would stay close to the areas where the feeders are.
Meszterics also highlighted that the hunting associations in Somogy county fulfill half of their yearly quotas in the winter months.
“It is important to regulate the population size by hunting in order to mitigate substantial damage by game, not to mention that hunting tourism is a major source of income for the association.”
As the Facebook post says, the three-day hunting event took a great deal of organisation beforehand and everyone who was involved did an excellent job.
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The hunters ended the event with a proper celebration as per the etiquette of Hungarian hunters. They lined up the wild game and decorated the surrounding area with branches as well as set bonfires at the four corners of the spread.
Berek reports that during the three-day event, altogether 115 wild games had been killed including mostly wild boars, a few red and European fallow deer “tarvad”, which refers to females or young males, as well as two foxes and a golden jackal.
The president of Tapsony és Vidéke Petőfi Vadásztársaság (Tapsony and Area Hunting Association) noted that they shot 650 boars out of the 750 yearly quotas in this hunting season.
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Source: sonline.hu, sokszinuvidek.24.hu, berek.hu
5 Comments
Wild boar are a pest and are the reservoir of African swine fever, a highly contagious disease for domestic pigs. I do think that overfeeding these prey species with feeders and persecuting their natural predators/preventing their reestablishment is a very serious problem for the regeneration of forests and rare plants.
Maybe it’s time to move on from these archaic practices such as game feeding and coordinated drives. If anything efficient culls or stalk hunting that is much more fair should replace these practices to control game numbers that do not have natural predators.
@Anonymous
Projecting much?
Anyways, your comment reeks of ignorance as you probably live in a first world country and probably eat meat from factory farms. If you don’t then congrats as you are not a hypocrite. Yet, you probably don’t even have experience relating to hunting while you sit comfortably behind a computer talking smack. Here is a news flash for you, humans have been hunting for hundreds of thousands of years. That is how we as humans survived as a species because of our ancestors hunting animals. Cultures throughout the world have hunted animals for food, from Indigenous people in North America to the Indigenous people in Asia.
For myself, I can say that hunting is a personal experience that helps to acknowledge how privilege we to be born as humans.
I also agree with Thomas assessment of boars. They are a highly invasive species that can cause havoc onto the local animal population. Then again, you probably didn’t know that @Anonymous. You were too busy preaching to the choirs about the “evils of hunting.”
Thankfully there are still people with common sense & so in Canada a few communities are organizing hunts using professional bow hunters to cull deer that have been totally ruining every garden and hobby farm as they have increased in numbers beyond what the natural environment can keep healthy. The other that I am aware of is a place that got overtaken by rabbits which originated in lazy pet owners discarding them on the sneak. The meat will fill freezers for the many soup kitchens and food banks, hopefully nursing homes and hospitals too since wild meat is so healthy and elderly people here were raised on what is called “country food”.
A bigger threat to wild game is people who leave food out, which then makes the animals stop fearing humans and the built up areas…then they get killed by the monsters on the roads, humans, cars etc.
Hunting a “sport”? Spare us the noble hunter/gatherer guff. It’s an unpleasant male thing to want to shoot wild animals for “fun”.