Obwalden: hunting is a sovereign right of the canton
The canton exercises sovereignty over hunting; hunting is by licence, valid across the whole cantonal territory.
Obwalden's act on hunting and the protection of game and birds (JagdG, GDB 651.1) of 20 May 1973 opens with an article that speaks of sovereignty rather than ownership: hunting is a sovereign right of the canton, which holds, within federal law, the express right of disposal over huntable and protected animals. Article 2 then sets the regime: hunting is practised under the licence system. The right is acquired through licences or special authorisations, issued by the competent department within the statute and its implementing rules, for the whole territory of the canton. The canton organises and supervises hunting: hunting police and game wardens, maintaining healthy populations, conserving and allowing bearable growth of threatened wildlife, conserving and improving habitat, limiting populations to a level bearable for farming and forestry, and adequately protecting landed property. The government issues the hunting police rules each year and appoints a seven-member hunting commission.