Wolves 🐺🐺🐺 still great Fear and Ignorance
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Wu Ming — 12 months ago(April 03, 2025 08:05 AM)
NZer April 03, 2025 03:39 PM
Member since March 21, 2017
Just plain delightful. That was a very brave attempt for a baby.
Agreed.
And you
'heard'
his sibling
giggling
voicelessly
🤭 who was there from the start (left upper corner). -
Wu Ming — 12 months ago(April 03, 2025 08:57 AM)
NZer April 03, 2025 05:27 PM
Member since March 21, 2017
Yes! Btw what a neat lair that is, under the tree roots. It's by the river and there's very loud birdsong. A very desirable piece of real estate indeed.
Yes, it looks well chosen.
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Who remains patient
will be rewarded at about min 05:00. 🤩
The Trail to a Wolf Den (2022)
(05:49 mins)
"Once pups are born, wolf dens become the center or focal point of all wolves activity.
We got lucky to have a camera on this trail not far from the 'Paradise Pack' den this spring." -
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.
….
….
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
That sneaky Bastard! -
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 
️️️
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! 🩸🩸🩸
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doesn't know what that really means.