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smear campaign against wildlife

Dr. Kai Frobel, Bund Naturschutz in Bayern eV

In Bavaria, is currently running a hate campaign against rare or returning Animals such as wolf, lynx, beavers, otters and cormorants. Even the open breach of the law is invoked. The BN calls on politicians, alpine farmers, fish farmers and fishermen to leave the animals alone.

Wild animals need to survive also contribute to the whole society: overdue is a national hardship fund to compensate a particular individual claims, funding for prevention measures and a state-worn advisory system as a mediator between humans and wildlife. The resources of the state each year from the current 0.8 million € in the short term to increase to approximately € 2.5 million.

In rural areas, is specifically made sentiment against returning species. Otter, beaver, Cormorant, wolf and lynx are used as scapegoats to divert attention from their own shortcomings both in the protection of rivers like the misguided agricultural policy.

Typical claims from the last three months:

• "The Bavarian Alps is recorded as a wolf-free area (no-go area)," "The Wolf in Mangfallgebirge resident can be seen without delay" (pasture management association Upper Bavaria). "The wolf has to go" (Mayor Hans Hofer, Bad Aibling)
• "Inventory reduction come with fishing permits for the otter must "(Alois Rosenberger, Chairman District Fisheries Association Wegscheid)
• " beaver plague "(member Reinhard Pacheco, CSU). "Therefore, this pest is now shooting" (County Council Hans Keil, CSU, Landshut, to Beaver).

Ramsau bei Berchtesgaden

Ecological ignorance Discussion is characterized by ecological ignorance. Central paradigm "absence of natural enemies" are "proliferation About" and "necessary reduction. The controversial Species are end members of food chains or even large predators.. They had never been "natural enemies", even in people free primeval The crucial bestandsbegrenzende factor is the food supply in the form of plant or meat in the countryside, regulate themselves, tried out with millions of years area systems and highly intelligent adaptation of the young number to the food supply. For us as a top predator that plunders the planet without restraint, which seems perhaps because so difficult to understand because we are such self-restraint is very difficult.

man-made problems Many problems are also human-caused: who systematically in the open countryside fish ponds of natural hiding places such as reeds and water lilies "clean" and produced in these naked bath an unnaturally high density of fish or who blocked hundreds of trout-square-foot pool, which can ill blame the natural fish-eaters, that he can this mass rearing water reacts. Who plows to water causes necessarily beaver damage. Anyone who thinks that running sheep in the Alps without being able to know what it was to extinction of the wolf in human history never has to adjust its use of form.

The rigorous shooting and killing of wild animals without reasonable Bayern reason is a nationwide leader. Bruno the Bear 2006 was not an isolated case: hunting of wolves in the Bavarian Forest, 1976, 2002 and 2004, shooting of cormorants since 1996 to 2010: about 72,000 cormorants (only in winter 2009/2010: 8724 reported kills), launch of 5300 herons, 25,000 magpies, 50,000 crows, jays 30 000 per year in Bavaria and continued illegal killing of lynx and beaver.

end to the rush! This policy of killing as a distraction from the real problems must be an end at last. The BN does not allow that there is a campaign against animal species, not to mistake an ecologically sustainable land use or to conceal their own political shortcomings!