Wolf just walks across the factory premises - now the state parliament is also dealing with the rare predator

Wolves are observed more and more frequently in Bavaria.

Hardly any danger to humans - but certainly to farm animals.

Now the state parliament has dealt with the subject.

Bissingen - When Sascha Busack loaded a van on the company premises in the Swabian town of Bissingen (district of Dillingen *) on Monday morning, he and his two work colleagues noticed that they were being watched. And from a curious wolf - that has meanwhile also been confirmed by the State Office for the Environment. "He just walked into the site and it looked like he was going to take a look at this," said Busack. For a good quarter of an hour the predator walked back and forth between the construction company's pallets and lattice boxes, sniffing a pipe here and there.

Construction worker Busack took out the cell phone and documented the surprising visit.

He reported that he got within two meters of the animal.

He wasn't afraid, says Busack, but he did have a certain amount of respect.

Finally the four-legged visitor disappeared again through a hole in an adjacent fence.

23 confirmed sightings of wolves in Bavaria this year

It is actually rare for a wolf to come so close to humans.

But the evidence of wolves in Bavaria is becoming more and more common.

For this year alone, the State Office for the Environment has already documented 23 records in the entire Free State - this does not include the currently nine areas with wolves that are loyal to their location.

After several attacks on farm animals, the wolf was also a topic in the state parliament's environmental committee on Thursday. According to the will of the parliamentary groups of CSU * and Free Voters, the protective status of the wolf is to be put to the test. Because the Free State cannot change the protected status of the wolf, the parties called on the Bavarian state government to work with the federal government and the EU Commission "for a cross-state and cross-state monitoring for a reassessment of the conservation status and for a lowering of the protection status". The desire of the Free Voters to include the wolf in hunting law failed, according to the Free Voters, due to resistance from the coalition partner.

The SPD * and the Greens *, on the other hand, are calling for herd protection to be improved by expanding state subsidies and thus preventing attacks by wolves on farm animals as far as possible.

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A wolf * also appeared in Miesbach in Upper Bavaria.

The Bund Naturschutz has now commented on this.

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