Federal Act on Forest
(Forest Act, ForA)

¹ Sub­ject to Art­icle 26, the can­tons shall take any meas­ures ne­ces­sary to pre­vent the causes and con­sequences of dam­age that could com­prom­ise the func­tions of the forest. In par­tic­u­lar, they mon­it­or their area for harm­ful or­gan­isms.²⁴

² They shall reg­u­late wild an­im­al pop­u­la­tions in such a way that forest con­ser­va­tion, in par­tic­u­lar nat­ur­al re­gen­er­a­tion with tree spe­cies suited to the loc­a­tion, is guar­an­teed without pro­tect­ive meas­ures. Where this is not pos­sible, they un­der­take meas­ures to pre­vent dam­age caused by wild an­im­als.