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This weekend, on May 20^th to 22^nd, the XIV Bloodless Hunt takes place in Pärnumaa in the RMK Jäärumetsa hunting district with the woodcock as this year’s target animal.

25 nature photographers are expected to the event.

 

The base camp of the "Bloodless Hunt“ is in the Pootsi hunting lodge. Showings of Hendrik Relve’s slide show, "Wild Kongo“ and Urmas Tartes’s and Arne Ader’s multimedia programme "Along Emajõgi in frog’s-eye perspective“ have been planned for non-hunting time.

 

The bloodless hunt is as an ordinary hunt but with cameras as guns, memory cards as ammunition and a myriad of animal and nature photos as prey.

Not a single gunshot, only quiet camera clicks. Worthy prey is stalked and ambushed from early dawn to late evening.

 

From the photos taken during three days each participant selects the ten best ones. From these the jury in turn selects the 50 most interesting photos that can be seen at the photo exhibition this autumn. At the same time the winning photos will be announced.

 

The "Bloodless Hunt“ is arranged by the NGO Bloodless Hunt,  RMK, Estonian Museum of Natural History and Overall Eesti AS. Target animals in previous years have been roe buck, wild boar, beaver, deer, elk, bear, lynx, wolf, otter, capercaillie and pine marten.