Park to park: comparing notes

Date :: 01/12/2010
Keywords :: Hunting Fauna Management Planning

Many protected areas are constantly on the lookout for case studies and lessons learned in relation to specific topics and eager to hear about how other countries tackle various issues. The ALPARC newsletter, which is sent to the management bodies of each and every Alpine protected area, can be used to put your questions to a wider audience.

Simply send your queries to info@alparc.org and we will publish them in the next newsletter.

The planned Adula Park (Switzerland) is interested in your experiences of managing hunting in the core zone

Work is currently underway to set up the Adula Park , a project for a park with national importance in the Graubünden and Ticino cantons in southern Switzerland. A number of controversial issues need to be resolved during the implementation phase, such as how to deal with hunting within the protected area.

Under the Swiss Parks Ordinance, hunting is prohibited in the core zone, other than for the purpose of population management in order to limit damage caused by game animals. The core zone of the proposed Adula Park is home to sizable game populations, which the Graubünden Office for Hunting and Fishing says must be managed by hunting in order to prevent excessive population growth and damage to woodland.

Hunting is a long-established tradition in the area. A decision to ban hunting and bring in professional rangers to manage game numbers would seriously diminish public support for the new national park.

Staff working on the park project are therefore keen to hear from other parks where hunting is permitted in the core zone. More specifically, they would like to know:

Is it always best to ban hunting within the core zone of a national park?
And are any other national parks, either in Europe or further afield, where hunting is permitted in the core zone?

Please send all contributions to Dunja Meyer

The ALPARC network depends on and is driven by mutual assistance between its members.

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