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A Bloodless Hunt is like real hunts, but with cameras for guns and memory cards for ammunition, and the bag from the hunt is a huge amount of animal and nature photos. Not a single gun sounds, only quiet clicks from shutters. There was stalking and spying from hides, with cameras ready from early morning to late night. The photo hunt lasted from the evening of May 22, to noon on May 24 in Pärnumaa, and at the same time abroad. For the third year the competition includes photos by photographers who have participated in earlier years, but happen to be abroad during the event. So the Bloodless Hunt took place in the state of New York in USA as well as in our native forests.

This year’s target game for the hunt was the otter, but everything, everywhere could be hunted – in water and air as well as on land, to illustrate the Pärnumaa landscape and its residents.
Hunting targets in earlier years have been deer buck, boar, beaver, deer, elk, bear, lynx, capercaillie, black grouse, and badger. The photo hunt has taken place in RMK Väätsa, Mahtra, Hiiumaa, Kuressaare, Suurejaani and Nõva hunting grounds and in Northern Kõrvemaa.
The photo exhibition opens on Wednesday, October 14, at 16.00 (4 p.m.) in the Estonian Museum of Natural History (Loodusmuuseum), Lai 29A and stays open until November 1. For information phone 64 11 739 or mail muuseum@loodusmuuseum.ee