I often essay about this pro-wolf attitude in Germany, and the situation where they are expanding out into various forests. Today, I noted via Focus (the news magazine) a massive attack on some sheep down in the Schwarzwald (deep forest territory to the southwest of Germany).....forty sheep dead.
What the authorities say is that this occurred around Bad Wildbad. The problem here is that while the wolf attack did kill some of the sheep....it is apparent that the rest jumped into local creek, and drowned.
Naturally, this brings up the whole pro-wolf agenda going on. One of the FDP folks even went to criticize the Green Party....saying that they should end their "romantic Wolf sponsorship".
From the general public right now....roughly four out of five Germans support the return of the wolf to local forests. The national numbers on wolves? It's suggested they number near 800 now across the nation. If nothing impedes this over the next decade? You can do the simple math and what they say about wolves and reproduction.....typically one litter of pups per year (after age 3). A reasonable guess would say a minimum of 5,000 wolves would exist in decade.
As for compensation? The state folks have to assess the killed sheep, and pay off the owner. I imagine that the state won't have much of a problem. But for sheep owners.....if this were to become a weekly event....they start to rethink their cooperative nature with this.
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