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The Valais government approved a five-year decision. The television images had previously caused controversy among the population.
Mountain goat safari is a lucrative business for the canton.
Photo: Arno Balzarini (Keystone / Symbolbild)
Starting next year, foreigners will no longer be able to hunt mountain goat trophies in Valais. Only hunters who reside in their canton of origin or those with a Valais hunting license can kill ibex.
The Canton of Valais decided this as part of a five-year resolution, as it announced on Friday. Last fall, media reports of wealthy foreigners shooting ibex in Valais sparked controversy.
For the canton, trophy hunting has so far been a lucrative affair. It earned him several hundred thousand francs a year. Swiss and foreigners can get a day patent in Valais and shoot mountain goats. Depending on the length of the horns, they paid up to 20,000 francs for it.
Another 25 permits for foreigners
The mountain goat safari is not over yet. For this year, the Department of Game, Fish and Wildlife (DJFW) has issued 45 special hunting permits per day. 25 of these go to foreign hunters.
In total, this year a maximum of 544 ibex, 269 goats and 275 goats should be hunted. Of these, 323 are hunted by Valais hunters as part of regular statutory hunting. (Click here to view the voting dossier on the hunting law vote on September 27).
The remaining contingent will be eliminated with daytime hunting permits, patent shots and any hunting shots by the hunting guard, it says in the statement. The Federal Office for the Environment (Bafu) approved the shooting of 56 old goats (11 years and older).
