Hunting is increasingly being targeted by various claims and speculations, for instance, it is cited as a reason for the deteriorating state of habitats. Such anomalies can also be observed in the EU State of Nature report, although...

...upon reviewing the source data, the situation is completely different! Therefore, based on the very same data, for some reason, contradictory conclusions have been drawn. Hunting is considered a high-risk environmental "influencer" in only 0.66% of cases; that is to say, EU member states assess hunting as a "significant environmental influencer" in less than 1% of cases...