Federal Minister of Agriculture Julia Klöckner complains about damage to agriculture from wolf cracks and advocates tougher treatment of animals.
Federal Minister of Agriculture Julia Klöckner (CDU) has spoken out in favor of targeting individual wolves. In some federal states such as Lower Saxony a “good state of preservation has been achieved in the wolf,” said Klöckner of the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung”. Your party is therefore committed to a “regional inventory management”.
3000 dead farm animals due to wolf cracks
The CDU does not want to come to terms with the growing problems in the country. “In 2019 we had almost 3,000 farm animals killed or injured as a result of wolf cracks. Where will this end if you just let it go”. You can understand very well that parents are concerned about their children, said Klöckner. But it is by no means about exterminating the wolf completely.
The tightening of the Federal Nature Conservation Act, also known as Lex Wolf, initiated by the federal government in 2019, was not enough. In the meantime, she has received letters from SPD politicians in Lower Saxony calling for stricter countermeasures, said Klöckner. The “blocking attitude” of Federal Environment Minister Svenja Schulze (SPD) is considered to be “unworldly”.
128 wild packs
According to the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, the number of wild wolf packs in Germany was 128 in 2019/2020, 23 packs more than in 2018/2019. The vast majority of the wolves still lived in a wide strip of territory that stretches in central Germany from Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt via Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania to Lower Saxony. 98 of the 128 packs were concentrated in Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt and Lower Saxony.
The wolf, which was once exterminated in Germany, has been spreading again considerably for around 20 years, which has led to conflicts, especially with livestock owners. The strictly protected animal may only be hunted or captured in exceptional cases with official approval. For a long time there has been a heated political controversy over the question of whether the protection of predators should be weakened and hunting easier.
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