Return of the Wolves - Curse or a Blessing?
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TaraDeS — 10 months ago(May 23, 2025 06:25 AM)
I just rewatched this
beautiful, relaxing video again. 
I've watched a zillion wolf videos and many wolves
'in person'
.
And never noticed that they walk in a pace. ähem
Wolves amble!
Cat
(explains nicely what pace or amble is)
"Our queenly can opener is still an ignorant fool."
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Wu Ming — 12 months ago(April 04, 2025 07:01 PM)
The Wolf is back
Horse Breeder now relies on Dogs 
After almost 200 years, the wolves are back in North Rhine-Westphalia.
For some, they're an enrichment of the ecosystem — for many farmers they're primarily a nuisance.
A pair of wolves with five cubs roam around Meinerzhagen in the Sauerland region.
Stephanie Dietrich with her two trained Kangals.
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https://www1.wdr.de/lokalzeit/landwirtschaft/wolf-im-sauerland-nrw-wie-schuetzen-landwirte-ihre-tiere-100.html
April 04, 2025
KANGAL - 7 Facts to consider!
And no matter the dog's breed:
They must be trained
beforehand
as
livestock guardian dogs
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Wu Ming — 11 months ago(April 14, 2025 01:29 AM)
Those bastards!
Golden jackal or wolf? Experts are now sure
A driver on Rittnertstrasse could hardly believe his eyes when a large, dog-like animal ran in front of his car. He quickly pulled out his cell phone and filmed the four-legged creature. Was there perhaps a wolf roaming the residential area?
The city is now responding to the video.
A wolf stands in its enclosure in a wildlife park.
☻
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Update, April 11, 2025 15.00 p.m.: City confirms mysterious animal is a golden jackal
Responding to a request from ka-news.de, the city administration confirmed that the animal filmed was a golden jackal. The video was sent to the city and forwarded to the Baden-Württemberg Forest Research Institute (FVA) in Freiburg for identification.
Experts there confirmed that a golden jackal did indeed cross the road in Durlach.
https://www.ka-news.de/region/karlsruhe/goldschakal-oder-wolf-video-sorgt-fuer-aufsehen-in-durlach-11-4-25-art-3306973
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Wu Ming — 11 months ago(April 14, 2025 06:55 AM)
The biggest Problem for Shepherds isn't the Wolf
The mayor and the district administrator agree:
Given the increasing frequency of wolf attacks in the immediate vicinity of towns in the northern and southern Ilm district, it must be permissible to take action against particularly conspicuous animals.
They also expressed this during a meeting in the state parliament, where a motion was immediately introduced to relax the particularly strict protection status for wolves.
This in turn prompted reader reactions, again.
Wolf in a Wildlife Park in the Schorfheide Forest in Brandenburg.
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On the Lower Rhine, in the wolf territory of
"Gloria"
, the
notorious wolf
on radio and TV, who was threatened with being shot several times because she learned to jump fences, we stood with 450 sheep
for a year in sun, night, and fog without losing a single animal, while there were losses
in nearby herds that were inadequately protected.
The compatibility of wolves and grazing livestock farming is possible – provided we want it to be.
That's also demonstrated by the example of European countries where the wolf never disappeared.
Shepherds indeed face massive difficulties because their specific contribution to landscape conservation
and biodiversity is not truly recognized politically and economically.
But we shouldn't pretend that the wolf is their biggest problem.
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https://www.thueringer-allgemeine.de/lokales/ilm-kreis/article408773638/meinung-das-groesste-problem-der-schaefer-ist-nicht-der-wolf.html
April 12, 2025
We know what the Wolf does in the Shadows!
Guten Morgen!
Edited June 20, 2025 08:45
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Wu Ming — 11 months ago(April 16, 2025 04:14 AM)
Now
'we'
can fear the next
HORROR MONSTER
.
Everyone talks about the Wolf: Does Rhineland-Palatinate have a Problem-Lynx?
There are now 4 wolf packs [
families!
] with 8 adult animals in Rhineland-Palatinate.
But what are the lynx actually doing?
An estimated 20 of the so-called brush-eared lynx now live in the state – in the border region with France.
Four births of lynx kittens were recorded in 2024, reports the Ministry of the Environment in Mainz.
Estimated 20 Lynxes now call Rhineland-Palatinate home.
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https://www.welt.de/regionales/rheinland-pfalz-saarland/article255950644/Alle-reden-vom-Wolf-Hat-Rheinland-Pfalz-einen-Problemluchs.html
April 16, 2025
Rhineland-Palatinate (4.1 million inhabitants) was virtually overrun with 20 Lynxes!
How the Lynx is silently spreading all over Europe
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Wu Ming — 11 months ago(April 17, 2025 05:52 AM)
NZer April 17, 2025 01:20 PM
Member since March 21, 2017
I'd love to see these beautiful sneaky bastards bounce back!
I'm currently busy with Wolf affairs, sorry.
That sounds odd even to me…
"affairs"
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Wu Ming — 11 months ago(April 16, 2025 07:04 PM)
EU Members allow faster Wolf Culling
EU member states approved a legislative amendment to speed up the culling of wolves.
They thus approved the EU Commission's proposal, according to which the wolf is no longer considered strictly protected, but the species' conservation should continue to be ensured. Among other things,
DNA analyses are no longer required.
For the regulation to enter into force, the European Parliament must still approve it.
EU member states must then formally adopt the amendment.
It's then up to the individual states whether to lower the protection status at their national level.
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/mitgliedsstaaten-der-eu-ermoeglichen-schnelleren-abschuss-von-woelfen-104.html
April 16, 2025
Halali!
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Wu Ming — 11 months ago(April 17, 2025 03:59 AM)
EU Countries approve Draft Law to speed up Wolf Culling
In Austria, the wolf is currently permitted to be culled by regulation.
Environmental NGOs consider culling unacceptable, even with a reduced protection status.
The wolf is a protected animal.
The wolf returned to Austria. 80 animals were recorded individually last year, and five packs [
families
].
Although the wolf is protected throughout the EU, hunting is still permitted in this country.
Currently, wolves that come too close to populated areas or are responsible for attacks are authorized for hunting by decree of the respective state government. A practice that conservationists consider illegal.
European law experts also warned of impending infringement proceedings.
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https://www.derstandard.de/story/3000000265462/woelfe-werden-in-oesterreich-per-verordnung-geschossen
April 16, 2025
The
infringement proceedings
will come, not only from Austria.
Halali!
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Wu Ming — 11 months ago(April 21, 2025 01:59 AM)
Ha!
Germans don't want to shoot the Wolf.
The question was:
Are you for or against including the wolf in hunting law and downgrading its current protection status?
42% against it
31% for it
16% don't care
11% didn't reply
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https://www.bild.de/politik/inland/deutsche-wollen-den-wolf-gar-nicht-abschiessen-trotz-jagd-plan-von-cdu-und-spd-68012962cd205831a5e4a564 -
Wu Ming — 11 months ago(April 24, 2025 06:43 PM)
Shooting a Wolf?!
Hunters fear Death Threats 
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CDU/CSU and SPD [
new coalition/government after election
] want to make it easier to shoot wolves.
Many hunters are hesitant about this.
And they also lack experience with shooting, say a shepherd and a hunter.
Wolves, who kill many livestock, will soon be easier to hunt. But there are practical questions.
"I don't know any hunter in Stemwede who would officially shoot a wolf, even if it were legal,"
says shepherd Nils Möller, noting that the pressure from animal rights activists is intense.
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https://www.westfalen-blatt.de/owl/kreis-minden-luebbecke/wolf-abschuss-jaeger-kritik-meinung-jagdgesetz-3283375?pid=true&ueg=default
April 24, 2025
That
"lack experience with shooting"
really made me laugh.
That's a very flimsy excuse, reminds me of
Problem Bear Bruno
who really was a problem.
The hunters supposedly didn't know for weeks where Bruno was, because they felt offended.
Sorry, I straggle…that's a longer story and bears are a whole other topic.
Back to the wolf.
Many hunters
don't want
to shoot wolves.
They understand the benefits of wolves and know how they live…in families!
And many hunters have dogs that are not so distantly related to wolves.
But true, the
"pressure from animal rights activists is intense"
.
Although I don't know anyone who would threaten a hunter with death. ☻
Well, everywhere are good and bad ones, and neither hunters nor animal rights activists are angels.
Apart from that ongoing heated discussion, a
DRAMA REPORT
from my home state!
Wolves killed (perhaps) 2 sheep
at a
petting farm
.
It's not yet clear whether dogs were the culprits. As often in the past the
"evil wolves"
turned out to be dogs (gene test). Big headlines about
"murderous wolves"
sell better.
The petting zoo operators didn't put up wolf-proof fences, though its all paid by the government.
Btw. guardian dogs too, these shelter programs exist for several years.
The petting farm didn't want to spoil the atmosphere for the children.
Yah, please show the children how nature
really
works.
Live and in colour! 🩸🩸🩸 -
Wu Ming — 11 months ago(April 29, 2025 03:56 PM)
Wolves are a Part of Nature
A survey shows that most people don't want wolves to be hunted.
The government should face the facts that wolf hunting is pointless and not wanted by the people.
Wolf.
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67%
of respondents consider
wolves to be a normal part of the animal world
in Germany,
according to a recent representative survey conducted by INSA on behalf of the BILD and published on April 19, 2025,
61%
consider the wolf an
enrichment of biodiversity
. Only 31% want the wolf to be included in hunting law and its protected status to be reduced. NABU Thuringia sees the results of this survey as a clear vote for the wolf in Germany and Thuringia. The responsible politicians and the government have a duty not to jeopardize decades of joint work on wolf protection in Germany for the interests of a vigorously lobbying anti-wolf scene that wants to hunt the wolf.
Silvester Tamás explains:
"Grazing animals play a minor role as food for wolves. These predators feed on over 95% wild animals and natural resources. We can understand if a grazing livestock farmer is shocked when arriving at the pasture in the morning and finds, for example, a sheep killed lying on the field. That's not a pleasant emotional experience. But hunting wolves doesn't help them. What really helps is proper protection of grazing livestock. Wolf attacks could've been avoided in about half of all incidents of wolf attacks in the Free State if effective livestock protection measures had been implemented on the affected pastures. Expenditures for effective livestock protection in Thuringia are already subsidized by up to 100%. This benefits both, grazing animals and wolves equally."
Shepherd with his flock and sheepdogs.
According to NABU Thuringia, the government should face up to the facts that wolf hunting is pointless and not wanted by the people. The Environment Ministry has the power to find pragmatic solutions and could, among other things, establish a
livestock protection center
that would advise and train livestock farmers, assist with any funding and compensation applications, and can also promote the use of technical livestock protection and livestock guardian dogs.
https://thueringen.nabu.de/news/2025/36149.html
April 29,2025
NABU
is one of the largest, most well-known, nature conservation groups in Germany and has worked for over 100 years for people and nature. The society is formally recognised by the German state as an environmental and conservation society, a body responsible for public issues (
"Träger öffentlicher Belange"
) and must therefore be consulted over issues affecting the ecology.
NABU has, together with its sister organisation in Bavaria, about 830,000 members (June 2022).
NABU currently has around 960,000 members and supporters (December 2024, including LBV-Bavaria) and is active in all federal states with around 2,000 local, district and specialist groups.
https://www.nabu.de/wir-ueber-uns/was-wir-tun/00357.html#:~:text=Der NABU hat heute rund,%2C Kreis- und Fachgruppen aktiv
.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturschutzbund_Deutschland -
Wu Ming — 11 months ago(April 30, 2025 12:35 PM)
WOLF DAY
Action Day for the Returnee
NABU monitors the return of the wolves to Germany since 2005. To reduce fears and concerns among the population and promote greater acceptance of the wolf, NABU declared April 30th the WOLF DAY. Informational events on the topic of wolves are offered nationwide on this day.
Rokäppchen lügt!!! - Little Red Riding Hood lies!!!
Since the turn of the millennium, wolves once again live in the wild in Germany.
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What was initially celebrated as a sensation has developed into a certain normality in many places. Wolf families now live in the eastern parts of Germany for many years, and wolves also returned to almost all other states. Residents, livestock farmers, and tourists already more or less adjusted to their new neighbours. The path to this coexistence is anything but conflict-free.
NABU monitored the return of wolves from the very beginning and one thing became clear:
The question of whether wolves can return to Germany permanently is not a question of biology or ecology. Rather, it's about whether we humans want to give wolves a permanent chance here and commit to coexistence.
Who still believes that storks bring babies? Nobody!
But the fairy tale of the
"big bad wolf"
and
Little Red Riding Hood
persists. That's why we say:
"Little Red Riding Hood lies!"
and on WOLF DAY, we put the lies to the fairy tales.
https://rlp.nabu.de/tiere-und-pflanzen/saeugetiere/wolf/tag-des-wolfes/index.html
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I saw a single wolf in northern Germany, near Kiel, in 1995.
Unfortunately, I cannot prove it…yah, I know how
that
sounds.
But my family believes me, because the few huskies in our area (which can easily be mistaken for wolves in the dark) were at home, and the GSDs were with their owners.
There were no possible traces to be found, but it was raining, as usual, not only on the UK islands.
The wolves returned to Germany via Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989) and the opening of the borders. There were legitimate fears at the time that rabies might return with them too, but this problem was solved with vaccine baits.
Wolves and Humans - Paths to Coexistence (2025) Intro
Who wants to watch the whole
'series'
with 12 episodes (each about 10 mins)
or the same as one movie, can find it on the NABU channel.
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Wu Ming — 11 months ago(April 26, 2025 08:07 AM)
Who's in the sunny weekend modus
can watch the video below, it's funny.
Normal people (not sure about
'normal'
) are visiting a so called
'Wildlife Park'
.
Alas, some little jokes get lost in translation with the automatic subs.
E.g. pretty much at the beginning he asks for
"3 tickets for humans"
(not "people").
A little later, they continue with beer.
That gives courage to meet the
super-dangerous
wolves behind the fences.
Wildlife Park Moritzburg - The Wolves were more active than Us!
(April 23, 2025)
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doesn't know what that really means.