As of: February 8, 2024, 7:00 p.m
By: Tom Otto
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Were pleased with the great response (from left): Helmut Mader, managing director of the BBV Unterallgäu district association;
Barbara Oswald, wolf representative of the Allgäu Alpine Economic Association and Alois Hartmann, spokesman for the ArGe hunting cooperatives.
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Unterallgäu - Last week the general meeting of the working group of hunting cooperatives in the Unterallgäu farmers' association took place.
The organizers invited Barbara Oswald, the wolf representative of the Alpine Association in the Allgäu, as a guest.
At the current event, Alois Hartmann, first spokesman for the ArGe of hunting cooperatives, referred to a panel event by the Bavarian State Hunting Association in Heimertingen at the beginning of November.
At that time, the two wildlife biologists, Professor Dr.
Sven Herzog from Dresden and Marcel Züger from Graubünden warned of the consequences of unlimited wolf reproduction.
Barbara Oswald introduced herself to the more than 50 participants at the event as a “hunting farmer”.
In October 2021, she was appointed wolf representative for the Alpine Economic Association in the Allgäu, an association for the preservation of the cultural landscape.
Members of the association are alpine farmers, shepherds, comrades, owners, tenants and friends of the Allgäu alpine economy.
Since even hunters do not receive in-depth knowledge of wild animals during their training, she gave an overview: An adult male wolf weighs around 50 kilograms, an adult female around ten kilograms less.
Wolves smell their prey about two kilometers away.
If a potential prey is already bleeding, Isegrim can smell it up to five kilometers away.
In one night they are able to cover distances of 80 kilometers.
With a hunting speed of around 60 km/h, wolves have no trouble hunting even fast wild animals.
With a meat requirement of around four kilograms per day, this can be converted into the prey animals.
Over the course of a year, a wolf needs around 70 pieces of roe deer or nine pieces of red deer or 17 pieces of wild boar, depending on how completely it utilizes its prey.
The Wolf in the Lower Allgäu - information evening for the hunting associations
While the densest wolf populations are found from Saxony via Brandenburg to Lower Saxony, the current situation in the Allgäu is comparatively relaxed. But the wolf is polarizing here too.
So far, individual animals and pairs have been spotted in the Oberallgäu area and in the southern Ostallgäu.
The so-called mating season runs from January to March, so the local couples can expect to have offspring soon.
If you would like to get an idea of the local situation, please refer to the website www.wolfszone.de.
There, wolf sightings and damage to livestock and wild animals are noted much more intensively than, for example, on the official maps of the State Office for the Environment (LfU) in Munich.
Reliable data
The Allgäu Wolf Commissioner criticizes the often bureaucratic work of the authority.
Many reports from farmers are not recorded or are only checked using photos on the computer, without an expert from the LfU appearing on site.
If a wolf report is checked “officially”, this can sometimes take a few days.
During this time, foxes have the opportunity to feast on the wolf's cunning prey, so that no genetic traces of the wolf can be found the next day.
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Criticism of Labor
Oswald also criticizes the only laboratory approved by the authorities, the Senckenberg Research Institute, which carries out genetic engineering evaluations.
Other laboratories often produce different results from the same animal.
Increasing hybridization, i.e. the mating of wolves with domestic dogs, could also lead to cunning animals not being assigned to wolves, but to feral dogs.
Oswald mentioned several indications that the Senckenberg Institute protects the wolf when in doubt and assigns cracks to other animals so that the wolf crack statistics may not appear so dramatic.
There is now cross-association collaboration with other organizations that opposes the monopoly of genetic analysis at the Senckenberg Research Institute and has doubts about the institution's independence.
Anyone who wants wolves in our regions must also say how many of them a region can tolerate.
However, there is no reliable database to determine this.
Barbara Oswald therefore asked the farmers present to always report unclear cracks, even if in doubt.
This is the only way to counteract the romanticized perception of wolf populations and their consequences for the Allgäu alpine economy.
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