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wolves

07.09.2021

Finnish Hunters' Association: Ministry should make decision on population control hunting

On 2 September 2021, the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) published an interim report on the work to determine the favourable conservation status of wolves. The Finnish Hunters' Association requests that the Ministry of…

29.08.2021

Finnish Hunters’ Association celebrates its 100th Anniversary

The Finnish General Hunters' Association was founded exactly one hundred years ago in Helsinki on April 24, 1921. &nbsp;The main goal of the new alliance was to create rules to hunting, to promote respect for hunting laws and good…

Ei uutiskuvaa

07.08.2021

Corona instructions

The Finnish Hunters’ Association has prepared recommendations to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The association recommends that everyone actively follow the updated information provided by the authorities. The new corona virus (SARS-CoV-2)…

Shooting with lead

24.06.2021

Lead restriction endangers the opportunities for shooting sports

Adopting the proposal to restrict the use of lead issued by the European Chemicals Agency as it stands would mean a setback for the environmental protection of shooting ranges in Finland, and would significantly jeopardise the future of shooting…

Wolf

16.06.2021

Setting limits to growth of wolf population - hunting for population management must start

According to the 2021 population estimate for wolves issued by the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), the number of wolf packs in Finland had grown to between 32 and 38, while individual wolves numbered 279-321 in March 2021. The Finnish…

Man with a gun

22.04.2021

Four rules for safe gun handling

Nobody who does not know these rules should touch a gun, much less tell anyone else how to handle a gun. Rule 1: All guns are always loaded The only exception to this occurs when one has a weapon in his hands and he has personally unloaded it for…

hunters in the woods

01.12.2020

Tuomas Hallenberg continues as Chairman of the Finnish Hunters' Association

Tuomas Hallenberg from Helsinki will continue as Chairman of the Board of the Finnish Hunters' Association for the next two-year term. The Vice Chairman of the Board will be Ilkka Mäkelä from Punkalaidun. Eleced members of the Board and…

Ei uutiskuvaa

13.11.2020

The Finnish Hunters' Association does not give in to the lead shot restriction

The European Commission passed its lead shot restriction at an online meeting of the EU Member States' REACH Committee on 3 September. &nbsp;The decision could ban the use of lead shot in hunting and sport shooting in most of…

Kuva luovutustilaisuudesta

04.11.2020

The wolf initiative was handed over to Parliament

The citizens’ initiative "Initiation of tribal wolf hunting and prevention of wolf injuries" has today been handed over to the Finnish Parliament. It is proposed in the initiative that a law be prepared that enables the initiation…