Current natural environment in Slovakia is considered one of the best preserved in Europe, boasting of beautiful flora and fauna. At the same time Slovakia is one of the few countries that have retained hunting tradition, customs and habits. 

Hunting Tradition

Slovakia has its national hunting tunes and Slovak hunters even use ten hunting signals not used anywhere else, issued in 1971 as a brochure score. Most of the established habits support human and ethical execution of hunting rights by hunters. The major public educational event is the traditional June -Month of Hunting and Nature Protection. Another occasion is represented by celebrations of Days of St. Hubert, Patron Saint of Hunters. The mission promoted by hunters in Slovakia is that game must first of all be protected and taken care of and only then hunted.

Hunting in Slovakia

Populations of all European carnivorous animal species have successfully survived in Slovakia. Slovaks can proudly report occurrence of the complete "European Triad" of beasts of prey, including the biggest carnivorous species in the European region, the brown bear (Ursus arctos), the canine beast wolf (Canis lupus) and the feline beast European lynx (Lynx lynx). Other canine species that can be found in the country include fox and Nyctereutes and of feline species you can also find here wild cat (Felis silvestris), as well as Mustelidae such as Eurasian badger (Meles meles), Eurasian river otter (Lutra lutra), European pine marten (Martes martes), beech marten (Martes foina), European polecat (Mustela putorius), or Ermines (Mustela erminea). As carnivorous beasts serve for regulation, selection and sanitation in the nature their preservation is the mission of both protectionists and hunters.

As of 10 March 2014 Slovakia had 1,867 registered hunting grounds. Total area of hunting ground in Slovakia in 2013 was 4,434,295 ha. Slovakia is divided to hunting grounds for deer, roe deer and small game (hare, pheasant, partridge). In addition there are also hunting localities for fallow deer and mouflons in Slovakia. Hunting grounds are forest and field ones.

Occurrence of Game in Slovakia

Red deer (Cervus elaphus), European fallow deer (Dama dama), European mouflon (Ovis musimon), European roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), Eurasian wild boar (Sus scrofa), Tatra chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra tatrica) - The Big Fatra and the Slovak Paradise, Alpine chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra rupicapra) – the High and the Low Tatras, Brown hare (Lepus europaeus), Brown bear (Ursus arctos), Wolf (Canis lupus) – with the biggest population in Prešov (38%), Žilina (26%) and Banská Bystrica (18%) regions; Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx), Western Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus), Eurasian black grouse (Tetrato tetrix), and Hazel grouse (Bonasa bonasia).

Source: Kampolovat.sk

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