Zurich: 161 territories leased for eight years
The canton hunts under the territory system: political municipalities lease the hunting right to a society for eight years.
Zurich hunts under the territory system. The canton has 161 leaseholding societies, some of long standing. As a rule the hunting territories match the municipal areas: the political municipality leases the hunting right to a hunting society for a period of eight years. Hunters who win a territory in Zurich's usual award procedure are entitled to hunt in that area against payment of a market-rate lease to the canton. In taking on a lease, the hunting society commits to a wide range of services in the public interest. The current lease period runs from 2025 to 2033; the canton publishes the register of territories with the societies' contact addresses, and the territories themselves in its GIS browser. The legal basis is the cantonal hunting act (Kantonales Jagdgesetz, JG, LS 922.1) of 1 February 2021, in force since 1 January 2023, which replaced Zurich's 1929 act.