Federal Act
on the Protection of Nature and Cultural Heritage
(NCHA)¹

The gath­er­ing of wild plants and cap­tur­ing of an­im­als liv­ing in the wild for com­mer­cial pur­poses are sub­ject to ap­prov­al by the com­pet­ent can­ton­al au­thor­ity. Such ap­prov­al may be re­stric­ted to par­tic­u­lar spe­cies, areas, sea­sons and quant­it­ies or num­bers, or in oth­er ways, and or­gan­ised gath­er­ing or cap­tur­ing activ­it­ies and the pro­mo­tion there­of may be pro­hib­ited. The fore­go­ing does not ap­ply to nor­mal ag­ri­cul­tur­al and forestry ex­ploit­a­tion, or to the col­lec­tion of con­ven­tion­al amounts of fungi, ber­ries, and herbs used in teas and for medi­cin­al pur­poses, un­less the spe­cies in ques­tion are pro­tec­ted.