Brandenburg Hunting Law.

The present Law lays down provisions relating to hunting matters in the Land of Brandenburg. Article 1 establishes that game is an essential part of the local environment and as such it has to be conserved as an essential part of the natural general environment. Moreover, the protection of the huntable game in its living space should be the concern of the whole society. The purpose of the present Law is to: 1) conserve the great variety of wild animals in respect of its natural living basis; 2) protect endangered species; 3) ensure, improve and re-instate, as the case may be, the natural living basis of wild animals; 4) limit damages in the forests and on agricultural cultivations caused) by wild huntable animals; 5) harmonize matters pertaining to hunting in particular with those of nature protection, animal protection, care of landscape, as well as with those concerning recreation and tourism; 6) regulate the exercise and organization of hunting; 7) promote biotopes and protect habitats. The text consists of 64 articles divided into 12 Parts as follows: Principles (1); Hunting districts and foster associations (2); Devolution of hunting rights to third parties (3); Protection of game and its living spaces (4); Promoting of hunting (5); Exercise of hunting (6); Protection of hunting (7); Damage caused by game and hunting (8); Trade in game (9); Organization, competence, proceedings (10); Amending provisions (11); Final provisions (12).