15 teams and 132 hunters will take part in the Small Game Hunting World Championship in Suomussalmi, Kainuu. The event has gone off without a hitch.
The Small Game Trapping Championships, which caused a stir earlier this month, continued on Saturday in Suomussalmi, Kainuu. The event is a competition to see which team can kill the most small carnivores within the time limit.
The race has gone off without a hitch.
The competition will involve 15 teams and 132 hunters. Catches have been scarce, with a dozen animals caught by Saturday afternoon. Last year, the competition caught around 40 small predators.
The Suomussalmi Championship competition is supervised by batch supervisors and other authorities in the area.
“Competition” gnaws at many, trapping not so much
The event has aroused opposition both on social media and otherwise. For example, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry received a lot of contacts about the competition during the event, and the animal protection group of the parliament has said that it opposes the organization of the small game hunting competition.
Attention has focused specifically on the competitiveness of fishing. It has been feared that it will entertain the killing of animals.
According to the organizer of the competition, Jarmo Heikkinen, the idea of \u200b\u200bthe competition is not to make fun by killing.
– Even though this is a competition, we practice ethical hunting here. As a hunt, this is no different from what it would be without the word competition, race organizer Heikkinen stated in an interview with Yle on Friday.
Jarmo Heikkinen is now organizing the competition for the ninth time.
He says that in the future, the use of the word competition is going to be abandoned. However, they also want to continue catching small game with the help of people from outside the area.
– It is a completely legal activity, and there have been small game hunting competitions for dozens of years, he said under the Suomussalmi event.
Many organizations organize small game hunts. The Archipelago Nature Management and Protection Society received the WWF Finland Panda Award for its activities this summer, which take over the living space of the highly endangered polecat.