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You better run: there is no place for sport hunting in Israel!

The school season began yesterday, but also the "sporty" hunting season, which aims to kill animals for fun.

In Israel, there are about 2,000 hunters who hold a hunting license, which causes puppies and orphaned chicks to starve to death and are allowed to live with much suffering until their death. And all for sports. Shouldn't you run or swim instead?

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Dr. Yoav Perlman

Thursday, 02 September 2021, 14:21 Updated: 15:24

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The finch hunting method: an improvised cardboard cage, nets, a portable speaker, and a live finch tied to a bait as a bait (Photo: Natan Baisonovich, Nature and Parks Authority)

Some people like to swim, some run and some prefer to spend time in the gym or on the home spinning machine. Almost every one of us, has a sport that he connects to. Did you know that in the State of Israel in 2021, there are people whose sport is to hunt wildlife?

Hunting in Israel can be divided into three: "interface" hunting, which is managed continuously by the Nature and Parks Authority in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture and local authorities, and its main goals are to dilute populations of "erupting" wildlife such as wild boars, rock rabbits, jackals, foxes and more. Illegal hunting, which is estimated to reach 15,000 cases a year, and its victims include a large number of bird species, such as partridges for food, finches and other songbirds kept in cages as pets and quite a few mammals, including several hundred deer each year, hunted mainly for food. And "sporty" hunting under the auspices of the law, which is defined (unjustly of course) as sporting for leisure and pleasure purposes.

Today, there are about 2,000 hunters in Israel who hold a hunting license, which for five months a year (the hunting season begins on September 1 and ends on January 31 each year) they are allowed to hunt wild pigeons, lakes and several species of wild ducks.

Some are endangered species.

Every year during the official hunting season, tens of thousands of wild birds are hunted in Israel!

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Hunters are allowed to hunt wild pigeons, lakes and species of wild ducks, some at risk.

Hunter in the Hula Valley (Photo: Society for the Protection of Nature, Ron Cherka)

Hunting is not a sport, but a violent action with severe negative effects.

Hunters in Israel (Photo: The Society for the Protection of Nature, Roni Livne)

In hunting there is no consent - there is exploitation by a dominant species of another species

Unlike sports activities where there is competition between two parties who agree and want to participate in the activity, in hunting there is no consent - there is exploitation by a dominant species, using aids such as guns and vehicles, as well as technological means to capture animals of another species that are significantly inferior. This 'sport' usually ends in the killing of an animal, some of which is at high risk for many other reasons.

Hunting is not a sport, but a violent act with severe negative effects on animal populations, in the world and in Israel. Many times, hunting leaves orphaned puppies and chicks starving to death. In very many cases, hunting is not characterized by rapid and effective killing, but rather a severe injury that leaves the animal injured and suffering great and prolonged suffering, until its inevitable death. The sounds of the shooting, even if they do not harm the animals, combined with attempts to run over and other hunting activities - cause them tremendous stress, which interferes with the course of their lives.

It is also possible to mention the pollution of the water sources and soil in the lead found in the hunting pellets.

In tissue accumulation, lead can cause serious illness and even death in humans.

In conversations with hunters, they declare that they love nature just as much as I do, and nature conservation is just as important to them as it is to me.

I have a hard time understanding this.

Hunting of a common queue, proposed last year outlawed (Photo: Society for the Protection of Nature, Ron Cherka)

Capture them for the benefit of hybridization with other birds.

Hunting finches in Gush Etzion (Photo: Society for the Protection of Nature, Yotam Bashan, Society for the Protection of Nature)

An excellent decision for nature in Israel

At the beginning of the month, the Minister of Environmental Protection, Tamar Zandberg, decided to take action to extend by three years the temporary order that prohibits the hunting of migratory quail and the current queue.

This is an excellent decision for nature in Israel and is important because the current line is in danger of becoming the third world extinct in its severity and in Israel as well, it is included in the list of endangered species.

The information we have indicates a sharp decline in the sizes of the populations, both those that breed in Israel and those that migrate through Israel. The migratory quail is also defined as endangered in Israel, and according to a study conducted for the Nature and Parks Authority, the size of the population living in Israel is minimal. The research recommendation was adopted by a temporary order by former minister Gila Gamliel to ban peaceful hunting in Israel, and especially a ban on the use of audio traps - a cruel hunting method that uses a simple electronic means that perfectly mimics the sounds of birds so that the animal can not distinguish between Emanating from the device. The trap brings the innocent peace close to its bitter end, the shotgun. Sports, no?

Hunting is one of the main causes of damage to biodiversity in the world and the extinction of animal species.

Hunting has far-reaching ecological effects on ecosystems, both through direct extinction of animals and overexploitation, and also through indirect effects.

In terms of direct extinction - the best known example of this is the global extinction of the migratory pigeon in 1914 as a result of hunting and even today, many wildlife species are on the verge of extinction due to hunting, such as the turnip, various rhinoceros species and the African elephant. , Like other epidemics and zoonotic diseases, is probably in the hunting, trade and food of wildlife).

Therefore, my friends and I support the extension of the temporary order as a temporary move, and

call on the Ministry of Environmental Protection to promote an amendment to the Wildlife Protection Law, which will suit the era of global biodiversity crisis and the reality of nature conservation in Israel and around the world.

Dr. Yoav Perlman, Scientific Director of the Israeli Birding Center at the Society for the Protection of Nature

What do you think: Should we continue with "sporty" hunting?

• Yes, it has been practiced like this for years

• No, it's just murdering animals

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