Hunting facilities

Mirjam Kristan (2014) Hunting facilities. Diploma thesis.

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Abstract

The hunt has been one of the oldest human activities since pre-historic times when it represented not only a daily routine but also an essential and vital part of survival. Despite the evolutionary development, social changes, and technical advancement, the hunt still plays an important role. However, due to excessive interference with nature it will take a great effort for the mankind to ensure natural resources for the posterity. In Slovenia there are 418 hunters' families whose members pursue the goals of The Hunters' Association of Slovenia. The expertise that a novice in the hunters' brotherhood gains through apprenticeship which is concluded with a test should highly benefit animals, people, and nature. One of the tasks is also building and keeping hunting facilities which enable the realization of higher aspirations of the hunters' family. The hunting facilities include hunting huts, bivouacs, feeding fields, salt licks, bilges, feeders, and hunting paths which are all presented and accompanied by pictorial records in my thesis. One of the acts that The Hunters' Association of Slovenia adopted is the Code of Ethics, which should be signed by every member of the hunters' brooderhood in order to preserve the hunting culture as well as hunting customs which are an integral part of our landscape and national identity. The fact that hunting has marked Slovenian culture incited me to do a more detailed research into it.

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