Wolf’s Hot Potatoes in Germany: ‘They don’t belong here’

The wolf is protected not only in Sweden, but also strongly protected in the European Union. But the wolf also means trouble, which is not entirely customary in Sweden. But in Germany, the issue is now so heated that a large meeting has been arranged to discuss the predator, reports say Watchman.

Germany’s farmers’ union wants the European Union to relax rules on when wolves can be shot. The reactions come after several wolf attacks on farm animals were observed in the country recently.

A total of 161 wolf packs live in Germany (meaning packs of eight to twelve individuals), according to German authorities, and about fifty additional registered wolves.

Since the wolf was protected in Germany in 1990, the animal population has been slowly but surely increasing. At the end of the 19th century, the wolf was more or less extinct in the region.

“don’t belong here”

In Bavaria, they have taken the issue of wolves into their own hands and there farmers are allowed to kill wolves themselves if their animals are in danger of being attacked. Christian Democrat Markus Söder, President of Bavaria, was there to see the consequences of wolf attacks across the state.

“I can say it plainly, the wolf doesn’t belong here,” he told the farmers at Oberdorf.

Bavaria’s Christian Democrats, CSU, believe that all wolves should disappear from Germany. The CDU sister party, which is represented in all other German states, for its part believes that hunting licenses should also apply to wolves in the country.

Sweden inspired

But the Greens oppose the CDU proposal.

– Taking up arms quickly is not a solution, and the constant lure of wolf-free zones and wolf quotas is against EU law and will not make it easier for herbivore owners, says Harald Ebner from de Grona, who is also chair of the board of the Federal Commission for the Environment and Nature Conservation.

His party colleague, Environment Minister Stevie Lemke, believes that protection of the wolf – and herbivores – should be strengthened.

– We cannot in good conscience demand the protection of animals in African countries while at the same time saying that the wolf cannot be protected here, you say.

At the same time, the agricultural union, especially those in northern Germany where the most wolves are, wants to see similar solutions found in Sweden and Finland. They want a certain quota of wolves to be shot each year.

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