Hunting tourism in Croatia

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Hunters have good reasons to come to Croatia for their vacation. There are over 70,0000 large and 80,000 small game, i.e. a total of 768 hunting areas - in lowlands, along rivers, in high mountains, in thick oak forests and on spacious meadows. Slavonia and Baranya in the northeast of Croatia offer great possibilities of varied hunting. The game that can be hunted are deer, boar, weasels and ferrets, wildcats, dormouse, skunk, hare, pheasant, thrush, quail, wild duck, wild goose. In the mountainous areas of Gorski Kotar there are mountain goats and bears. The wild goat is hunted in Dalmatinska Zagora and and on Biokovo, and the muflon is preyed upon on the Peljesac peninsula and the Adriatic islands.  Small and feathered game is characteristic of Istria, while the islands of Cres and Losinj are noted for specific species of wide-antlered deer. In order to hunt, a permit is required.