Shooting bonus

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A shooting bonus is a reward for killing animals or people.

General

With the awarding of a launch premium for animals that is the objective, the wildlife population to reduce or regulate, like wild boar to prevent game damage . Often it is about predators such as fox , badger and marten in endangered areas , e.g. B. at risk of rabies . In the past, launch bonuses were used to eradicate undesirable species. Shooting bonuses used to be an integral part of the pay of foresters and hunters . The term is to be distinguished from the bounty , which describes a reward for bringing a person, dead or alive .

Shooting bonus animals

After the Federal Hunting Act bounties are for Germany in spring Wild prohibited (birds). Exceptions are possible in the federal states , e.g. B. for wood pigeons to prevent game damage. Authorities such as district offices and forest administrations praise the bonuses.

In Switzerland there are cantonal regulations, e.g. B. Art. 40 Shooting bonus The government council can set shooting bonuses for the shooting of hair predators and certain bird species.

Thylacine

In 1830 the Van Diemen's Land Company offered a shooting bounty on the Tasmanian tassel wolf . In 1888, the Tasmanian Parliament passed a further shooting bonus for every thylacine killed. The aim was to exterminate the animal. Up until 1909, 2,184 bonuses were paid out. The last launch bonus was paid on May 13, 1930 to Wilfried Batty from Mawbanna. In September 1936, the last specimen of the pouch wolves died in the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.

wolf

Although the wolf in Switzerland has been eradicated already in 1872, the state saw Jagdgesetz a launching premium of 100 to the year 1902 francs before.

Wild boar

Since African swine fever has been spreading westwards for several years, several federal states are considering offering shooting bonuses for wild boars . This premium should be available in Bavaria from the beginning of 2018.

Launch bonus people

For every GDR refugee killed at the border, the Bulgarian border guards were paid 2,000 leva from the GDR state treasury. The British colonial government paid a shooting premium for killing Aborigines in Australia . There were also launch bonuses for killing the Tierra del Fuego Indians as well as for the Indians in Massachusetts , USA. In 1703 each settler there received £ 12 for an Indian scalp . In 1723 the premium was increased to £ 100. £ 50 was paid for women and children killed.

literature

  • Ilse Haseder , Gerhard Stinglwagner : "Knaurs Großes Jagdlexikon" Augsburg 2000, p. 17, ISBN 3-8289-1579-5
  • Gregor Lutz, Tatanka Oyate: The Lakota America's Forgotten Children
  • Hans Rudolf Sennhauser, Müstair - St. Johann Monastery: Scientific and technical contributions
  • Andreas Stieglitz, Tasmania: travel guide to a unique island

Web links

Wiktionary: shooting bonus  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Haseder p. 21
  2. ↑ BJagdG §19 (6): to set out, give or receive rewards for shooting down or catching game birds;
  3. ↑ Haseder p. 17
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  5. ^ Andreas Stieglitz, Tasmania: Travel Guide to a Unique Island , p. 52
  6. ↑ Michael Schneider, Traces of the Unknown - Reloaded: Cryptozoology: Monsters, Myths and Legends , p. 113
  7. ↑ Hans Rudolf Sennhauser, Müstair - St. Johann Monastery: Scientific and technical contributions , p. 204
  8. ↑ https://www.merkur.de/bayern/bayern-will-jaegern-abschusspraemie-zahlen-um-schweinepest-zu-verhahrung-9464857.html accessed January 8, 2018
  9. ↑ Spiegel-online One thousand per killing shot
  10. ↑ History of the Aborigines of Australia. In: Didgeridoo Dialog Winterthur. 2010, accessed February 12, 2014 .
  11. ↑ Herbert Kuhn, Turbo Ecology - Into the Future with Intelligence and Egoism , p. 240
  12. ↑ Gregor Lutz, Tatanka Oyate: The Lakota America's Forgotten Children , p. 95