It is in Germany easier for wolves to hunt that cause a nuisance. That has the German Environment minister Svenja Schulze said to the newspaper Bild. Wolves fall increasingly, farm animals, according to.
“Like wolves again and again about the fencing or jump too close to people, but they can shoot. I want to include in a wolvenwet,” says Schulze.
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In its proposal will be admitted to a wolf to shoot as that “serious damage to the agriculture” has caused. Today is that only possible if there is “substantial damage”, what courts means that there is danger to life.
Wolves in Germany are strictly protected, since they in 1996, returned to the country. There are rarely permits granted to wolves to hunt.
According to statistics from the government increases the number of attacks by wolves against farm animals, and especially against the sheep. In 2017 were 472 cases were recorded, which is an increase of nearly 66 percent compared to a year earlier. The number of dead, injured or missing animals increased by 55 percent to 1.667.
In 2017-18 were in Germany, 73 bands, 30 pairs and several wolves who live alone registered. Most of them live in the eastern and northern states.