After the recent wolf cracks in Bavaria, Agriculture Minister Kaniber is calling for changes in the law to be able to shoot wolves faster.
Environment Minister Glauber accuses his coalition colleague of populism.
Munich - Everything indicates that the wolf has struck again.
18 pieces of fallow deer were torn from a game reserve in Betzenstein in the Bayreuth district last Wednesday *.
As the State Office for the Environment confirmed yesterday, the cracks indicate one or more wolves as the cause.
A wolf pack has been established in the neighboring Veldenstein Forest for three years.
Wolves tear grazing animals in Bavaria: Agriculture Minister calls for simplified shooting
After the farmer's association vice Günther Felßner already demanded "practicable regulation options", i.e. a simplified shooting of the wolf, Bavaria's Agriculture Minister Michaela Kaniber (CSU *) reacted yesterday and called for a lowering of the protection requirements for wolves in order to be able to release the animals for shooting more quickly.
“We mustn't waste any more time debating how the wolf should be protected and how it can spread even more.
Now it's about the protection of grazing animals, because mere compensation is not the solution, ”she said.
The wolf population would have to be regulated at an early stage.
The Federal Environment Ministry is now called upon to urgently address the necessary legal changes.
In order to maintain a healthy European wolf population that is not threatened with extinction, it is not necessary that wolves occur in the same density in all parts of Europe and that every conceivable territory is populated with wolves.
With her demands she turned to EU Environment Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevicius, Federal Environment Minister Svenja Schulze (SPD *) and her coalition colleague, Bavarian Environment Minister Thorsten Glauber (FW).
Shooting wolves earlier in Bavaria?
Environment Minister Thorsten Glauber accuses Kaniber of populism
However, he reacted not very happy to Kaniber's advance.
"This acclamation is pure populism and does not help in the matter," criticized Glauber.
Kaniber himself knows that the strict protection status for wolves is set by the federal government and the EU.
The Bavarian approach was laid down in the Wolf * Action Plan, which was agreed by mutual agreement with the Ministry of Agriculture.
Glauber admits that the situation in Upper Franconia is very disturbing for the animal owners concerned.
"That's why we need clarity quickly about what exactly happened."
A spokesman for the environment ministry emphasized that herd protection was the top priority.
The costs for this can be replaced by a state funding program.
"Unfortunately, the herds fencing in Upper Franconia did not have any special protection against attacks by wolves." The local animal owners would be supported, for example, with retrofitting the fences.
The damage caused by the wolf cracks will be compensated.
Bund Naturschutz: Wolf cracks in Bavaria would have been avoidable
The Bund Naturschutz (BN) also shook their heads yesterday at Kaniber's advance.
"Effective protection of grazing animals is only possible with herd protection measures," replied BN chairman Richard Mergner.
"If the Ministry of Agriculture and the Agriculture Administration had not blocked herd protection together with the Bavarian Farmers' Association in recent years, the wolf cracks would have been avoidable," complained Mergner.
The Bavarian Wolf Action Plan clearly states that the so-called removal of wolves is only possible if proper herd protection has been overcome.
The knee-jerk call for shooting after wolf cracks only weighs grazing animal owners in the false belief that the animals can be protected with increased shooting and that herd protection is not necessary.
But that is a fallacy.
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