Ordinance
on the Protection of Nature and Cultural Heritage
(NCHO)

The Fed­er­al De­part­ment of the En­vir­on­ment, Trans­port, En­ergy and Com­mu­nic­a­tions (DE­TEC) may by agree­ment with the can­tons con­cerned au­thor­ise the re­set­tle­ment of spe­cies, sub­spe­cies and breeds no longer oc­cur­ring in the wild in Switzer­land, provided that:⁵¹

a.

an ap­pro­pri­ate hab­it­at of ad­equate size is avail­able;

b.

ap­pro­pri­ate leg­al safe­guards are in­tro­duced for pro­tec­tion of the spe­cies;

c.

the pre­ser­va­tion of the di­versity or ge­net­ic char­ac­ter­ist­ics of spe­cies will not be ad­versely af­fected.