Hunting in Spain: Tradition, Conservation, and the Key Role of Gunshops like Carbin

🇪🇺 Europe and hunting: How do we compare?

Hunting is not a phenomenon exclusive to Spain. In Europe, millions of people also practice this activity in a legal, ethical and supervised way. Let's take a look at some facts:

• France: more than 1.1 million hunters (the country with the most licences in the EU)
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• Germany: around 400,000 registered hunters
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• Italy: more than 500,000 active licences
• United Kingdom: around 900,000 people involved in hunting (deer, birds, foxes)
• Hunting in the United Kingdom: over 500,000 active licences
• Poland: more than 120,000 hunters
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Spain is among the five countries with the most hunters on the continent. However, in some sectors of European society there is an increasingly urban, emotional and distant view of the countryside, which generates tensions and misinformation about the true role of hunting.

🤔 How does European society perceive hunting?

• The younger and more urban generations tend to view hunting with suspicion, influenced by extreme animalistic discourses.
• Hunters are more likely to view hunting with suspicion, influenced by extreme animalistic discourses.
• However, surveys show that more than 70% of Europeans support hunting if it is ethical, regulated and useful for conservation.
• In the institutional sphere.
• At the institutional level, the EU recognises hunting as a valid tool for the management of the natural environment, especially when there are overpopulation or health risks.

The key is to communicate better: to explain that hunting is not killing for the sake of killing, but managing, conserving and living in balance with nature.

💰 Hunting and economy: a lever for rural development

Hunting generates a direct and verifiable economic impact:

• 10,190 million euros to the Spanish GDP
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• 199,000 total jobs, 45,642 of them direct
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• 1,200 million euros in tax revenue
• 1,200 million euros in tax revenue
• 289 million euros invested in conservation by private entities
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• More than 43 million hectares designated as hunting grounds
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📅 Spanish hunting calendar: a balance between conservation and tradition

The Spanish hunting calendar is published annually by each autonomous community. The following is a general summary:

🟤 Big game hunting

• Corzos: April (males) - September
• Deer, wild boar, fallow deer, mouflon: October to February
• Mountain goats: according to quotas and specific regulations
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🟠 Small game

• Red-legged partridge with dog: October to January.
• Rabbit: August to February.
• Hay: November to January
• Rabbit: November to January
• Thrushes and wood pigeons: October to February
• Winged doves: October to February
• Quail: August to September

🦆 Waterbirds

• Waterfowl (ducks): October to January (depending on wetlands)
• Waterfowl (ducks): October to January (depending on wetlands)

In addition, there is a general season between March and July to protect breeding and ensure population balance.

🌿 Hunting as an active conservation tool

Thanks to the action taken by hunters and managers:

• Overflowing populations are controlled
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• Habitats
are restored.
• Zooonotic diseases are prevented
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• Scientific studies on wildlife are developed
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Ethical and regulated hunting is a tool for ecological balance and an ally of biodiversity

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🛡️ The role of gun shops as Carbin: legality, control and trust

Legal gun shops - physical and online - like Carbin are an essential cog in this wheel. We don't just sell, we advise, educate and guarantee compliance.

✔️ We comply with strict regulation

Controlled by the Guardia Civil - Intervención de Armas, each sales process is verified:

• Valid and updated official documentation
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• Full traceability of the weapon and ammunition
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• Secure storage in accordance with the law
• Safe storage in accordance with the law

✔️ with serious suppliers and reliable brands

We only work with:

• Certified European manufacturers
• Approved distributors
• Products that have been tested and proven

✔️ Knowledge and expert attention

At Carbin we are hunters. We understand you, we advise you, and we help you make responsible choices.

🧠 Against prejudice: hunting is not killing

A distorted view can lead to misjudgements. Ethical hunting:

• Respects natural laws and cycles
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• It brings ecological, economic and cultural value
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• It conveys values of effort, respect and commitment
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To deny its role is to ignore the rural reality of Spain and Europe

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🏹 Proud to be a hunter, proud to have an armoury like Carbin

From Carbin we proudly claim who we are:

• Responsible hunters
• Regulated traders
• Passionate about the countryside, tradition and truth
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To support an armoury like Carbin is to support conservation, employment, training and safety

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🟢 Conclusion: without responsible gun shops there is no sustainable hunting

Hunting with respect, buying with safety, training with knowledge. That is what we at Carbin stand for, and that is what the hunting sector needs today more than ever: responsibility, pride and truth.

Hunting with respect, buying safely, training with knowledge.