I sat and watched N-TV (commercial German news) this morning. Highlight? Wolves in urban areas of Germany.....no kidding.
For the past four years, it's rare to go an entire week....without one of the public or commercial networks talking about wolves or wolf problems. Up through the 1980s.....there just wasn't any wolves in West Germany, and so after the wall comes down....you start to notice reports.
The push has been.....no hunting of wolves.....let them repopulate around Germany.
In the past year, reports of sightings have occurred in urbanized areas (not just the small villages of 500). So the German hunting association has now hinted....you can't allow cases where a pack of wolves have moved into a city like Kassel or Stuttgart.
Over in Saxony, in Hannover.....there's a report of wolves seen in the city park there.
Allowing finally a 'hunt'? No one in the federal government has said that, and I seriously doubt that the new SPD-Green-FDP government would go and allow it.
State governments? Totally different story. But even there....if a state signed off on a dozen wolves to be hunted....a court challenge would occur.
Eventually, some kid is going to be attacked in some city park by a wolf, and public perception will change overnight. But until that moment.....the hunting concept is not going to be accepted.
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