Report: Forestry Ministry calls for higher shooting numbers. Conservationists also believe that more hunting of red deer, roe deer and fallow deer is unavoidable.
State hunting association strictly rejects increased hunting. “We do not share the assessment that there is too much game in the forests,” managing director Wolf Last told the newspaper. The shooting targets would have to be lowered, especially for young animals, because many in this group would be killed by wolves. According to the state administration office, 4,400 red deer animals were hunted down in Saxony-Anhalt in 2022/23 hunting season.