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Hunting – Vogelbescherming<\/h2>\n[\/split_line_heading][nectar_animated_title heading_tag=”h3″ style=”color-strip-reveal” color=”Accent-Color” text=”Everything about the petition of the bird protection.”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” overlay_strength=”0.3″ column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”50″][split_line_heading animation_type=”default”]\n

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We already have a few things hanging on our bike. Especially now with the ongoing procedures of Vogelbescherming Vlaanderen. <\/p>\n

On 8 August 2014, Vogelbescherming submitted a petition against the Flemish Government to have a number of provisions in the hunting decrees of this Flemish Government declared null and void.
\n– The complete Petition of 2014 – Petition Vogelbescherming Vlaanderen<\/a><\/p>\n

And what do we learn from this:<\/p>\n

The biggest problems they have with the current hunting regulations are in the field of hunting in snow and frost, the special hunting of the fox, the use of bait in box traps, special hunting in general due to the lack of a legal basis, the special hunting of bird species because it is contrary to the European Birds Directive, etc. the hunting of the partridge, the hunting of the fox, the use of the pigeon carousel, the hatching and reintroduction of pheasant broods and the expansion of the winter hunting of greylag geese and wigeons.<\/p>\n

In the last petition it addressed to the Council of State, Vogelbescherming Vlaanderen raised 8 pleas that are set out below.<\/p>\n

1. Special hunting<\/h4>\n

Vogelbescherming Vlaanderen won a first blow on this point earlier this year when the regulation regarding special hunting in the Hunting Conditions Decree and the Hunting Opening Decree was annulled on the basis that there was no legal basis for special hunting in the Hunting Decree.<\/p>\n

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In the meantime, this point has been restored by providing a legal basis in the Hunting Decree (Hunting Decree 2015 07 20<\/a>). Now it is only a matter of waiting for an amendment to the hunting opening decree that provides for new opening dates for special hunting. <\/p>\n

2. The Snow and frost scheme<\/h4>\n

The next regulation that Vogelbescherming Vlaanderen wants to see annulled is the regulation of hunting in case of snow or frost. This regulation is currently contained in Article 7 of the Hunting Conditions Decree and reads as follows: <\/p>\n

\u201c\u00a7 1. If it snows at the location where hunting is taking place and the snow layer reaches a thickness of five centimeters, the hunting is suspended. The suspension lasts up to 24 hours after the last snow falls. The suspension referred to in the first paragraph does not apply in the following cases: <\/em><\/p>\n