A wolf roams the Alb-Donau district and leaves tracks

Created: 2022-06-09 15:53

By: Nadja Pohr

As the Ministry of the Environment announced, the wolf was out and about in the Alb-Donau district in spring.

This was determined by means of tracks on a lamb and a deer, which could be clearly assigned to the animal (archive and symbolic image).

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Two dead animals were recently found in the Alb-Donau district, on which traces of a wolf could be detected.

Ehingen/Illerrieden - In the meantime, more and more wild animals are conquering the districts in Baden-Württemberg.

In the meantime, they no longer even stop at urban areas and are also hanging around in Stuttgart, for example.

Foxes, raccoons and Egyptian geese are up to mischief in the state capital.

However, the most feared wild animal in this country is probably the wolf.

In Germany, the wolf was extinct for 150 years and only returned to the wild in 2000.

Sightings of individual animals have been reported in Baden-Württemberg since 2015.

"The danger is increasing," experts warn and are concerned about the spread of wolves in the southwest.

For some time it had become quiet around the predators - but now there are signs that an animal is roaming around in the Alb-Donau district.

Wolf in the Alb-Donau district: tracks on animals could be clearly assigned to the predator

As reported by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Environment, the wolf was out and about in the Alb-Donau district in spring.

This was determined by means of tracks on a lamb and a deer, which could be clearly assigned to the predator.

The lamb was found dead in Ehingen in April.

Nine days later, a dead deer was found in Illerrieden, 30 kilometers away.

The Forestry Research and Experimentation Institute FVA examined the genetic traces on the animals.

However, the experts were unable to determine whether it was one and the same wolf because the quality of the samples was not good enough.

However, due to the proximity of the two cases in terms of location and time, it may very well have been the same animal, the Ministry of the Environment in Stuttgart announced.

It is also unclear whether it is an already known or a new wolf and also where the animal is now.

Again and again wolf sightings in Baden-Württemberg: Some citizens are skeptical, others are happy

There have already been sightings of wolves in various regions in Baden-Württemberg.

Among other things, a wolf was sighted in the Heilbronn district or in the Zollernalb district, where a wolf has never been found before.

In the Black Forest (4) and in the Odenwald (1), on the other hand, sedentary wolves have already been detected.

Wolf prevention therefore pays particular attention to these regions.

People in the region are divided on the fact that there is an increased number of wolves in Baden-Württemberg.

While some citizens are happy that the animal has found its way back into nature, others are very uncertain and skeptical about the subject.

They see the danger that the wolves will increasingly attack grazing animals and could eventually attack humans.

Experts assure us that such a problem wolf does not yet exist in the south-west.