Basel-Landschaft: the regale belongs to the municipality
Rare in Switzerland: the hunting regale rests with the residents’ municipality; the canton hunts by territory.
Paragraph 16 of the Basel-Landschaft wildlife and hunting act (Wildtier- und Jagdgesetz, WJG, SGS 520) records a rarity in two sentences: the hunting regale belongs to the residents' municipality, and territory hunting applies. The canton did not reserve the regale to itself, unlike its neighbours. In the Baselbiet the canton itself describes hunting as a deeply rooted tradition. The municipality leases the territory to a group of hunters for eight years at a time, and those leases are the basis of sustainable hunting. The leased territories cover about 51,800 hectares in total: roughly 20,172 hectares of forest, 21,400 hectares of farmland and nearly 8,750 hectares of built-up area. Hunting planning within the territory falls to the leaseholding society (§ 17). The specialist office may nonetheless set the plan itself for particular species, order increased or reduced culling in one or all territories, require the plan to rest on population surveys so that age and sex classes are appropriately distributed, and require that game taken be presented to it.