It's like looking for a needle in a haystack - searching for fawns before mowing meadows and fields. The district hunting association Erding has now drawn a positive conclusion of the Bambi rescue.
Erding - "We managed to save many of the little fawns from death or bad mutilation," says Chairman Thomas Schreder. He thanks his fellow hunters, the farming families and many animal friends from the population. "We could avoid a lot of suffering."
Farmers and hunters have a joint responsibility to do something about mowing - "some out of a hunting obligation, others by law". Schreder is pleased that “awareness of the fawn rescue has never been as high as it is this year. Everywhere in Bavaria, new Kitzretter groups were formed ”.
According to Schreder, meadows and forage areas at the edge of the forest are particularly at risk. Because the roe deer prefer to put their fawns in the meadow. "There they are better protected from predators and goats and fawn find a particularly lavishly laid table." He appeals to the population never to touch young animals.
In order to protect the fawns even better, a research project by the Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture is to develop strategies for wildlife rescue. ham