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Act to amend the Hunting Act and the Nature Conservation Act

avaldatud riigiteatajasEstonia· Riigikogu· ET

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11 November 2025

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The bill provides for allowing the use of a night sight when hunting pest species, when necessary for the control of alien species, and when killing injured game. The bill provides for the issuance of a free hunting permit in certain cases and the authorization of hunting in the target protection zone and restricted zone of protected areas. According to the draft, the Environmental Board has the right to establish, in order to prevent a disease spread through game, to prevent a threat to human life or health, to kill an alien species, in order to avoid damage and to kill game injured in a traffic accident or other accident, the conditions and time period during which it is permitted to shoot game from a motor and all-terrain vehicle with the engine stopped, using a motor and all-terrain vehicle in other ways, using an artificial light source and using a night sight. The Hunting Act will be amended so that in future in such cases a hunting license will be issued free of charge in those areas outside hunting area. It also applies to hunting areas or hunting grounds that have not been put to use, as well as to the state's water bodies. With the amendments to the Nature Conservation Act, the draft stipulates the difference that the currently valid restrictions in the target protection zone and restricted zone do not apply to hunting with the consent of the governor of the protected area in the case of preventing African swine fever and other game-borne diseases.

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