Weilheim-Schongau: More and more wolf sightings — the State Office for the Environment is silent on the exact locations

Wolf sightings are increasing dramatically in the Weilheim-Schongau district.

Last confirmed proof is from the end of January.

District – Garmisch-Partenkirchen district administrator Anton Speer has submitted an application to the government of Upper Bavaria for the removal of wolves in his district, and he even handed it in personally at the end of last week in Munich.

"We have to act now, not just when something happens," says the Unterammergauer.

"We have sightings in the region almost every day, especially in the Ammer Valley and north of it to the Staffelsee area." The risk of pack formation is very great.

(The local newspapers in the Weilheim-Schongau district are represented on Instagram under “merkur_wm_sog”.)

Wolf sightings: Wildlife cameras document events

So far, little has been heard from politicians in the Weilheim-Schongau district on the subject, although the number of wolf sightings is increasing dramatically.

On the monitoring page of the State Office for the Environment, 23 wolf sightings in Bavaria have been listed so far this year, the vast majority of them in the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen (12) and in Weilheim-Schongau (7).

A reader of the local newspaper reported an eerie encounter in early February.

The last confirmed proof was a photo on January 29, the day before a wolf was even filmed - the LfU traditionally remains silent about exactly where that was.

On January 22nd and 23rd, the same wolf was probably recorded three times by a wildlife camera, on January 19th and 22nd a dead wild animal was assigned to the same wolf, which according to genetic comparison originates from the Alpine population.

A Swiss biologist recently warned against wolves in a lecture in Bernbeuren.

Biodiversity in Europe is threatened by the animal and humans are also targeted by the wolf.

Wolves are said to have killed a dozen people in India and Turkey in recent years.

By the way: everything from the region is also available in our regular Schongau newsletter.

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