How best to deal with the wolf was the topic of the BR program "Jetzt red i", which was broadcast live from Fischbachau.
Agriculture Minister Michaela Kaniber and Member of the State Parliament Gisela Sengl presented those affected on site.
Fischbachbau
- It is nocturnal, has gray-brown fur and is up to 90 centimeters high.
In 1996 he was spotted again in Germany for the first time.
And since then he has also been on one or two forays in the Miesbach district.
In 2015, he tore two sheep in Fischbachau.
A wolf was last seen at Seehamer See.
No wonder, then, that Bavarian television announced on Wednesday for its “Jetzt red i” program entitled “Shooting or Protecting?
The farmers and the quarrel about the wolf “couldn't have found a better place than the Wolfseehalle in Fischbachau.
Farmer reports from Wolfsriss 2015 at her farm in Fischbachau
While some animal rights activists want to let the wolf do their thing here, it scares farmers and alpine farmers.
They want more protection for their animals.
Maria Gruber, a farmer from Fischbachau, had to experience what the wolf can do.
In 2015, a wild animal killed sheep on her farm.
"It is a terrible feeling to have to collect the individual parts of the animal that has been raised with heart and soul," she reported.
In addition, the damage is immense.
After all, she doesn't just have a loss with the wily sheep.
“As a result, I missed the whole year,” complained the farmer.
Organic farmer on the Breitenstein: Stable rebuilt for fear of the wolf
Manfred Burger from the Association for Nature Conservation, however, said that one had to live here with wolves passing through. After all, this has so far only happened every five years on average. "The last one was spotted at the Seehammer See, that was almost no longer in our district," said the environmentalist. A comment that almost broke the collars of other guests on the show. For example Werner Haase: “I just can't hear something like that,” he rumbled - and after the broadcast he added: “Something like that can only be said by someone who doesn't earn his money with agriculture.” For 140 years, people in the Leitzach Valley have been without them Wolf rightly, clarified the goat and cattle farmer from Fischbachau. For fear of the wolf, the organic farmer has expanded his goat barn on the Breitenstein so that the animals are safer at night.However, this cannot be seen as a permanent solution.
Veterinarian and hunter: "Removal not easy but potentially possible"
Agriculture Minister Kaniber spoke out in favor of the fact that “the legal basis must be created in such a way that nothing stands in the way of rapid removal in the justified case”.
Green member of the state parliament Gisela Sengl admitted that the animal's currently very high protection status should possibly be lowered slightly.
In addition to numerous farmers from the immediate area, the vet and hunter Christian Seliger was also present in the discussion.
He reported that a potential removal of the wolf was "not easy, but possible in principle".
He advocated finding solutions where the wolf could live well and cause less damage.
District Alm farmer: "Fencing doesn't work here"
Johanna Ecker-Schotte, chairwoman of the Tegernseer Tal animal welfare association, who is known to be closer to farmers on the subject of wolves, also had a say (we reported). “The problem is that too many sides are promoting that the wolf should settle here. I see it completely differently, ”she said. Nor do they believe in the fencing in of the alpine pastures recommended by many wolf protectors. “We've been dismantling fences for years now because nature can't thrive like that,” she recalled. “Now suddenly fences are okay again. I don't understand. ”Nikolaus Schreier, a local farmer from Miesbach, was also critical of this:“ We have 165 alpine pastures, 4800 cattle and 537 sheep here. You would have to fence in 4800 hectares, that doesn't work. ”After the recording, the alpine farmers and wolf protectors continued to discuss.Here, too, the politicians faced criticism from the local farmers. Most were relieved to have expressed their opinion in the BR format. It remains to be seen whether this has actually brought any closer to a solution to the problem.
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