A wolf was recently spotted in the Rosenheim district.
That upsets the farmers.
The demand is already made to shoot the animal.
A car driver spotted a wolf near the road in the Rosenheim district.
The discovery now startles the farmers.
Affected farmers report great unrest among their animals.
Sachrang - For months,
wolf observations in the Chiemgau have been causing
unrest among alpine farmers - over a dozen sheep were torn down.
Now the
photo of a wolf in the Priental
near Sachrang (Rosenheim district)
causes
panic.
Peter S. from Schwabhausen near Landsberg was on the way to see his in-laws in Sachrang on Sundays.
When he drove past a sheep pasture in his car, he could not believe his eyes: "Suddenly a
wolf ran across the street
into the pasture and stopped."
Schwabhauser discovers a wolf on the street: the animal was near a flock of sheep
For the
nature lover, it
was initially a fascinating sight.
“I was extremely happy.” Peter S. stopped and even got out of his car to take a
picture of the wolf
.
"He turned around
again for a moment
and then
trotted into the neighboring forest
."
Was
he afraid?
"No, the wolves do nothing to humans." But since the animal was
near a flock of sheep
, the Schwabhauser informed the responsible farmer.
Since then it has been rumbling in the Priental.
Almbauer Peter Pfaffinger brought his first
sheep from the valley to safety
on Monday
.
His wife Monika reports: “We have been feeling a
lot of unrest
among our animals for
weeks
.” On Wednesday, her
herd of suckler cows
broke out of the pasture
in the middle of the night
and ran seven kilometers away.
“They just trampled down the electric fence and left.
They were
out of control
, ”reports Monika Pfaffinger.
Schwabhauser discovers wolf on the road: animal on the way in the border area since the end of June
Peter S. has
forwarded
his pictures to the
State Office for the Environment
.
The spokeswoman confirms: "It is likely that this is the wolf that has been found in the
border area Traunstein - Rosenheim - Austria
since the end of June
."
Six dead sheep
were found in June at Reit im Winkl,
three more
at Kössen in Tyrol torn.
On July 23,
another 14 sheep were killed
near Kössen
.
Genetic analyzes showed that it was a
wolf who had immigrated from Croatia or Slovenia
- so far, all wolves in Bavaria came from Central Europe or the Alpine region.
The State Office for the Environment explains that the farmers have been informed about the
new wolf sighting
and refers to the funds that the Free State
pays
for
measures to protect the animals
.
These include electric fences and mobile stables for sheep and goats.
Monika Pfaffinger would prefer the
wolves to be released for shooting
: “There are so many of them now.
The wolf is
no longer in particular need of protection
. "
(J. Welte)
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Startled by the sighting: Peter Pfaffinger (with his cattle at the cattle drive) fears the wolf.
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This is the situation in Bavaria
Since 2006, individual wolves have been detected in Bavaria again several times.
The last wolf in Bavaria was shot in 1882 in Kemnath (Upper Palatinate).
As a rule, there are now
individual migrating animals
that have left their parent pack either from the south-western Alpine arc in Italy or from the central European lowland population, i.e. from Poland or north-east Germany.
Evidence is provided by
wildlife cameras, sightings by qualified observers, genetic analyzes of fur remnants or tears
.
Every now and then it also happens that a
wolf is run over
.
Since May 1st there have been 26 such certificates in the Free State this year.
In the Bavarian Forest National Park, in the Veldenstein Forest near Bayreuth, in the Rhön and on the Grafenwöhr military training area, there are
local animals or even packs
.
A whole pack of wolves has even been spotted near Hamburg.
In the Ostallgäu three sheep were recently torn by a wolf and two other animals were injured.
A wolf also recently appeared in western Germany.
