Bavaria and Austria do not come to rest when it comes to bears: Now a hiker in the Allgäu has photographed a brown bear. He is said to have previously killed sheep in Tyrol.
Bad Hindelang – Just last week there was a great deal of excitement in the Tyrolean town of Außerfern, as 16 sheep were killed in the Schwarzwassertal there, 19 are still missing. Alpine farmers discovered traces of wolves and bears there and brought their sheep back down to the valley two weeks after the upwelling. The province of Tyrol is still checking the DNA traces.
A bus driver takes a picture of a bear in the Hintersteiner Valley © facebook / Roth
On Monday, a hiker observed one of the suspects or the culprits in the Allgäu just five kilometers away – in the Hintersteiner valley near Bad Hindelang (Oberallgäu). The hiker stopped, photographed the animal, which then made off and retreated into the forest.
Sheep farmers are alarmed
"The cracks in Tyrol were only five kilometres away from us over the mountain, we suspect it's the same animal," estimates Peter Vogler, vice-chairman of the Allgäu sheep farmers. They now fear that something similar to last week will happen in Tyrol: "We are now simply afraid for our animals." On the Tyrolean side of the mountain, sheep farmers drove 500 sheep back down into the valley last week. In March, a bear had fallen into a photo trap nearby.
The Allgäu Shepherd Vice Peter Vogler © in private / Facebook
After a review of the Allgäu pictures, the State Office for the Environment confirmed that it was a bear - the first bear detection in the Allgäu since October 2019, but in Upper Bavaria there were already eleven individual detections this year. The authorities advise day-trippers to be careful, farmers should bring their grazing animals back into the barn at night.
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Shepherd reports sleepless nights
Sheep farmer deputy Vogler does not think this is practicable: "I have 40 sheep outside, I can't bring them into the barn overnight. They've been in the barn for six and a half months now and are now standing in the fresh grass, I can't get them in."
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At half past three in the morning, he posted on Facebook: "I can't sleep."
Peter Vogler's sheep on a pasture in the Allgäu © Facebook / private
He ponders and reports on a highly pregnant sheep in the barn, a newly acquired breeding ram of an endangered breed and the herd that has been tightly housed outdoors. And then he writes: "Or can I not sleep because I like my sheep and don't want to give them to the wolf/bear as slaughter waste."
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