The hunters in the district have turned to walkers and winter sports enthusiasts with an appeal.
Ask them to show consideration for the game.
Ebersberg -
The beautiful snow-covered landscape attracts children, walkers and cross-country skiers outside.
Movement restrictions due to Corona mean that leisure activities now take place in the forest and field on site and not in the mountains on the ski slopes.
Therefore, the chairman of the Ebersberg district group in the Bavarian State Hunting Association, Karem Gomaa, calls on the game to take into account the game's need for rest and to observe a few simple rules that help the game a lot.
exposed to double loads in winter
The game, especially the warm-blooded herbivores such as
B. deer or rabbits, is exposed to double exposure during the winter months.
There is less food available and it is of poorer quality.
On the other hand, it has to spend more energy looking for food and regulating heat.
That is why the wild animals have developed strategies in the course of evolution to get over the winter time of need.
In autumn you build up fat reserves and change your short summer fur to a thick, warm winter fur.
Gomaa: "The wild animals also reduce their metabolic activity, they lower their body temperature and move as little as possible in order to conserve their energy reserves."
Stay on the paths!
This energy-saving program can only be maintained if the animals can remain undisturbed in the "dwellings", their living rooms, and are not constantly startled and worried when they eat - or as the hunter says "when grazing" - because this is what is essential for survival Energy supply.
They then run away in panic and use up even more energy than normal in the snow.
Therefore, Gomaa asks urgently not to leave the usual paths and not to go hiking across country, as tempting as that may be.
Because leisure activities away from the cross-country ski trails or snowshoeing through the middle of the woods can frighten the local game.
“You don't want strangers to suddenly appear in your living room and dining room at home without being asked.
Dogs should also be kept on a leash in woods and fields.
Also note that wild in particular.
eats food morning and evening;
so be especially considerate, ”Gomaa asks impressively.
Appropriate feeding helps with high snowfall
Species-appropriate feeding helps with high snow conditions over the winter, the animals are not fattened, but only the so-called maintenance requirement is covered.
"As good as you mean it, leave the feeding to the experts, us hunters," asks Gomaa, "Wild animals have special requirements for the composition of their food, leftover bread, for example, is not a suitable food." Inappropriate grazing can lead to severe digestive disorders and do more harm than good.
What hunters and forest workers in the Ebersberger Forest have to listen to.