CIC status rapport om Buejagt

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Bowhunting time line Europe and worldwide:

1936 Wisconsin opens the first US bow hunting only season
1945 Yugoslavian republic of Serbia regulates hunting with bow and arrow
1967 Denmark issues personal permits to bow hunters
1986 Portugal legalizes hunting with bow and arrow
1989 Zimbabwe makes it possible to hunt with bow and arrow on a special permit
1992 Lithuania legalizes all hunting with bow and arrow (situation has since changed)
1993 Finland formalizes a long period of unregulated bowhunting
1993 Hungary legalizes all hunting with bow and arrow
1995 France regulates hunting with bow and arrow
1995 Botswana legalizes bowhunting for plains game
1997 Spain makes hunting with bow and arrow possible
1998 Namibia legalizes bowhunting for plains game
1999 Zimbabwe changes the regulations for bowhunting
1999 Denmark regulates bowhunting for roe deer and smaller game
2003 France restructures the regulations for bowhunting allowing shorter bows and release aid
2003 Finland changes the regulation allowing roe deer and beaver to be hunted with bow and arrow
2005 Tanzania legalizes hunting with bow and arrow
2006 Åland legalizes hunting with bow
2007 South Africa makes new regulations for hunting with bow and arrow
2008 Denmark makes the formal change in the law to legalize Bowhunting
2008 France eases regulations for foreign bowhunters as well as young bowhunters
2009 Bulgaria legalizes all hunting with bow and arrow
2009 Slovakia legalizes bowhunting (in enclosures)
2012 Greenland starts the process of accepting the practice of Bowhunting
2012 Lithuania starts a process to re-open bowhunting

Bowhunting is growing all over the world. At the moment there are various ongoing processes to
legalize or to further develop bowhunting in many countries.

http://www.cic-wildlife.org/fileadmin/C ... Europe.pdf