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Dorothee
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| 10:58 PM Feb 10 2018

Dorothee

Germany

“Tierschutz Euskirchen” says that the “Landtag” in Stuttgart (Baden-Wuerttemberg/ Germany) now decided to reduce the overpopulation of wild boars in Baden-Wuerttemberg by having thousands of them shot. The national park “Harz” decided to have thousands of deer shot due to an overpopulation of deer destroying the vegetation. While wolves eat both, can be found in both Baden-Wuerttemberg and the national park Harz and it is illegal to shoot wolves in all of Germany, their numbers still are too low to do something against the plague of deer and boar we have here in some areas in Germany.

| 08:38 AM Feb 03 2018

Dorothee

Germany

“Tagesschau” says that the German Petitions Committee currently discusses the results of three petitions three different German parties have started. Reason of these petitions is the increasing number of wolves in Germany as it’s still illegal to shoot these animals here. While two of these parties started a petition against shooting these animals one started a petition to allow for hunters to reduce the number of wolves.
Reason is that wolves – smart animals after all – could realize someday that we don’t want to kill them. Then they would lose their fear of men and attack human beings and their livestock. This idea is further supported by the fact that here many people throw away their food, unintentionally attracting wild animals. Some even deliberately feed these animals, thinking this way they could “bond with a wild animal” like they do in numerous fictional movies.

| 08:17 AM Sep 29 2017

Dorothee

Germany

“Tierschutz Euskirchen” says that in Oberlausitz (Brandenburg /Germany) a pack of wolf seems to be losing its natural fear of human beings. They don’t run from people and often even approach them. Reason may be that people leave a lot of edible waste around in the forest. Some even do so, because they do want to get the wolves used to humans – partly to watch them and partially, because they are influenced by all these movies about friendship between a person and a wild animal. Sadly there now are plans to put these wolves down.

| 11:40 PM Nov 07 2015

Dorothee

Germany

Exactly ten years ago, on November 8th 2005 in Points North Landing, Saskatchewan, Canada a young university student in his early 20’s was killed by what was believed to be a wild pack of grey wolves. This area was well known back then for people dumping into the woods a lot of food that wasn’t edible anymore as well as for people simply dumping into nature plastic plates and cups that still contained remains of whatever once was eaten or drunk out of them. Bears and wolves from this area thus learned very soon to associate human beings with food and they eventually lost their natural fear of men. There even are reports of wolf packs which walked their pups in broad daylight past people passing by. The grown wolves didn’t even mind when their curious pups got too close to a human being. Even worse is that some people actually found this exciting and cute and encouraged the wolves to approach them for example by laying out food for them in the garden or by trying to attract wolves they just passed by.
As implied before the young man then was found dead in the woods when he didn’t return from a walk he wanted to take in this natural area and evidence – foot prints, biting marks – suggests that he was chased and eventually killed by wolves that lost their natural – normally no healthy wolf would attack a fully-grown man – fear of men due to associating human beings with a source of food.
As if this preventable tragedy – just don’t dump food, but instead put non-edible food into the bin or simply buy little amounts of food that can be eaten before losing their edibility – wasn’t horrible enough, people even spread untrue rumors that demonize wolves to make this sound even more dramatic. Stories about heroic volunteers who had to fend off wolves to make it possible for the dead human body to be taken away are really nothing but rumors…and unrealistic ones at that.

| 01:07 PM Mar 05 2015

Dorothee

Germany

“Tierschutz Euskirchen” says that a shepherd in Lower-Saxony (Germany) uses a donkey to protect his herd from wolves, lynxes, raptors and straying dogs as the population of wolves and lynxes slowly starts to increase in this area. He heard that donkeys are commonly used by shepherds from other countries to protect the herd from predators as donkeys don’t run from anything – which would be fatal anyway in the mountains where they originate from. Instead they try to scare predators and anything else they consider suspicious away by screaming and in really urgent situations they also kick. The shepherd says this method already saved his herd in some situations…and I should add that it also saved the lives of many predators considering that the red wolf was nearly driven to extinction because people feared this animal might prey on their sheep and it saved some condors that actually prey on dead sheep only, but are falsely accused of also killing them.

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