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fox hunting: hunting association of deceiving the public

The hunting association of Saxony reported on 11 February that the stock of foxes in Saxony since 1990 have increased by a factor of three. "The statement of the manager of the association is preserved in any way," Lovis Kauertz replies from JagdAberFair.de, an animal welfare initiative, which dealing with the subject of hunting. "Judge compares the fox trails 1990/91 (9995 dead foxes) and 2009/10 (24 705) and concludes correspondingly higher inventory levels. "

" Every child knows that lie hunter "(Sebastian Baron of Rotenhan)
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The year after the fall of any comprehensive collection took place the fox tracks. The structures of this would have worked until about 1994 at all. The number of foxes killed vacillate but since the mid-90's in a band between 30,000 (1995/96) and 21,000 (2006/07). Reliable conclusions on the stock but did not do based on the hit numbers.

The current fox research of independent scientists agrees that can not be regulated by means of hunting fox stocks in the area. Moreover, the vote also NABU Germany or the Ecological Hunting Association. Foxes regulate their density through social mechanisms of regulation itself. A non-hunted fox stock soon reached a natural population acceptable limit. Hunting on the other hand destroyed the social structures of foxes and leads to a significantly higher rate of reproduction. In hunting-free areas in Germany and in Europe there are no escalating Populations and hares, partridges and foxes live in a natural community together.

The role of the fox is discredited for decades by the German Hunting Association and its regional associations. In Fuchs see these associations pest, disease transfer and small game decimated. Indeed, the fox is one of the most useful animal of our nature. It supports forestry and agriculture. 90% of its food spectrum he contests by doing away with mice and other rodents, he removed the carcass in the forest and roadside and the fact that he sick and weak reaction Wild captured an important ecological designers - virtually a fitness trainer for his environment. As Germany is officially free of rabies through Impfköderaktionen since 2008, including the possible spread of epidemics from the fox is responsible for only a pretext for argument before the eyes of a critical population, the fox-hunting.

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