Bern: the cantonal system (licence-based hunting)
Bern practises licence-based hunting, within the federal framework shared by Switzerland's 26 cantons.
Bern practises licence-based hunting (patent system): each hunter individually acquires an authorisation, for a duration and species defined by cantonal regulation, within the framework set by the Federal Act on Hunting (LChP/JSG) and its implementing ordinance (OChP/JSV). The competent cantonal service, the Amt für Landwirtschaft und Natur, is listed in the directory of the Conference of Heads of Environmental Protection Services (KVU), which records the hunting authority of each of Switzerland's 26 cantons. The precise conditions in this canton — types of licence, fees, proficiency examination, hunting periods by species, federal game reserves and cantonal reserves — remain to be catalogued in detail on the cantonal portal and do not yet appear in this directory. They must be verified directly with the service before any application.