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It is not that

the forest is in

Somogy, but

that Somogy

is in the forest

The country’s richest hunting grounds are found in So- squirrel and wild cat also live here. For centuries, kings were
mogy; our picturesque forests and beautiful wildlife are hunting in the beech, oak, and hornbeam forests of Somogy,
known worldwide. Hungary’s most diverse forest includes and noble dishes made from game, hunted here, were put

the flat areas of the Balaton basin, the wide and deep val- on the rulers’ tables. The Habsburgs, among others, liked to
leys of Külső (Outer) Somogy, the streams of Belső (Inner) come here, and also the Prince of Wales, who later became
Somogy, the sandy areas of the Dráva plains, the romantic King Edward VII, admired our world-famous wildlife. Many
countryside of the Zselic and the slopes of the hills of Zala years have passed since then, but thanks to the conscious
extending into Somogy, where many programmes, interac- game management and the work of the hunting companies,
tive exhibitions and games wait for visitors. As in a perfect the forests of Somogy are still often visited by domestic and

biology class, we can admire most of the native tree species foreign guest hunters, whose comfort is provided by hunting

in Hungary in this region, while the canopy trail of Kaszó lodges. Th e flourishing hunting tourism, the medal-winning
and Deseda really brings the beauties of nature close. We can trophies, the number of which is much higher than the na-

find all five Hungarian big game here: red deer, fallow deer, tional average, and the hunting exhibitions have deservedly
roe deer, mouflon, and wild boar, moreover, fox, European made the historic County of Somogy famous.

badger, golden jackal, beech marten, European pine marten,

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