Brandenburg’s Minister of Agriculture Hanka Mittelstädt (SPD) wants to reduce the number of wolves – with a Federal Council initiative this Friday, she and Mecklenburg -Western Pomerania will be able to get rapid new regulations. The federal states should have the future federal government of the Union and the SPD on their side. According to the coalition agreement, the strict protection of the wolf is to be relaxed and he should come into hunting law.
Government coalition of the Union and SPD wants quick changes
The Federal government Change the EU Commission’s proposal to downgrade the wolf’s protection status in the European Flora-Fauna Habitat Directive, according to the coalition agreement. “We immediately accept the wolf into hunting law and the Federal Hunting Act opens up for this purpose.” A spokesman for the Ministry of Agriculture in Potsdam said: “We welcome this, the plans are in our minds.”
Brandenburg is considered the number one Wolfsland in Germany. For a long time there have been demands of farmers and hunters to reduce the number of wolves in the face of pasture cracks and to reduce concerns in the population. “We need inventory and control,” said Agricultural Minister Mittelstädt in March.
Nature conservation association dissatisfied
The Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation (BUND) in Brandenburg considers the projects to be little useful. Removing wolves does not lead to less pasture cracks, said state manager Axel Kruschat. A ray of hope in the passage of the coalition agreement, on the other hand, is the planned support for herd protection.
It is also interesting that a shooting rate for wolves in Coalition agreement not mentioned. “This is a sign that the coalition partners have understood that a quota hunt does not make sense,” said Kruschat.
State Hunting Association: Approaches must follow quickly
The State Hunting Association in Brandenburg called the plans to deal with the wolf another important step in the right direction. Practical solutions are finally needed to reduce the wolf stock, said association managing director Kai Hamann.
“But now there are also quickly action on numerous promises. We will measure these statements from this. » As the most important step, the association sees the reduction of the protection status of strictly protected on protected.
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