Graubünden has halted wolf hunting following an appeal to the Federal Administrative Court, the canton wrote on its website on Friday evening.
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The government has not yet received any notification of this decision.
It is not yet clear whether other cantons are also affected. The environment ministry was unable to provide any information on this subject on Friday evening, according to Keystone-SDA news agency.
Canton Graubünden was also unable to comment on the appeal on Friday evening. To date, eight wolves have been shot in the canton out of the 44 authorised.
According to the Swiss-German newspaper Tages-Anzeiger, nature conservation organisations such as the WWF and Pro Natura are behind the complaint.
A spokeswoman for Pro Natura told the newspaper that “we believe that the extermination of entire wolf packs should remain the last option”. However, she did not say whether complaints had been lodged in other cantons.
In canton Valais, ten wolves were killed during this first week of hunting. The canton has obtained the right to kill more than half of the thirteen wolf packs in its territory during these two months, i.e. around 34 wolves out of around one hundred individuals.
On November 1, the Swiss government brought into force, for a limited period, the first part of the wolf hunting ban.
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