Wolves have adapted swiftly and surely to human-dominated landscapes. But people are struggling to adjust to the wolves. The concentration of packs, von der Leyen declared when announcing the commission’s review of wolf protection laws, “has become a real danger for livestock and potentially also for humans”.
In December, the commission proposed to reduce the wolf’s status under the Bern Convention from “strictly protected” to “protected” in order to introduce “further flexibility” – potentially enabling wolves to be hunted and populations reduced across the EU.
Many populist politicians across Europe hope that talking up the threat of the wolf – alongside tough measures to tackle it – will win support ahead of next summer’s elections to the European parliament.
Oh yeah lets fuck up the wolf population again, now that they are finally returning to Germany after over a CENTURY.
Fuck vdL and fuck this sort of human-centric view of controlling local fauna.
Everytime it has been done so far - either by hunting or introducing a new species, it had unforseen consequences.
Probably shouldn’t have left the pony lying about where a wolf can find it then.
“Humans are struggling to adjust” is not a good reason to shoot wolves.
It’s a good reason for humans to do better at adjusting.
“Humans are struggling to adjust”
Skill issue
Yes, a wolf skill issue.
Very similar to the “Problem Bear” who had to be put down due to a “Failure to integrate into German society”
https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-problem-bear-bruno-is-dead/a-2068219
Humans, killing Billions of animals every year: It’s nature, I’m a lion.
Nature kills animals: Nuke it from orbit!
and potentially also for humans
Conservative politicians talking about stuff they don’t understand. Again. A story as old as politics.
Let’s continue to vote people into positions with power who lack the necessary brain cells to make informed and scientifically founded decisions. It has been working great so far as well. Didn’t it?
I have no idea who this person is but they look straight up like a young adult movie villain.
EU commission president, former german minister of defence, conservative party. Advocate for strong internet censorship
Former Minister of Defence being investigated for sketchy consulting contracts to friends of her. Accidentally wiped her telephone and got promoted to Brussels before the scandal reached full scale
Before we forget the one good bit: She was instrumental to the EU Green Deal.
All you really need to know is that said person failed upwards and then got into it’s current position by a backroom deal that ignored the EU election results.
IMHO very questionable at least, at best not good in that position either.
Someone should start hunting people. We’re the fucking pest here.
The germans did try that once. It was not considered a great succes.
fuck crooked ursula. she gave contracts state to ey! and kpmg when her stupid kids were interns there.
fuck crooked ursula. she gave contracts state to ey! and kpmg when her stupid kids were interns there.
That’s what she meant by “think of the children”. Can’t say she was insincere about that, then.
obvious /s is obvious
This is the best summary I could come up with:
It was a mild, windless night, sometime before dawn on 1 September 2022, when a large grey wolf trotted out of the woods beside Beinhorn, a hamlet of old barns and graceful wooden houses in the German state of Lower Saxony.
Many populist politicians across Europe hope that talking up the threat of the wolf – alongside tough measures to tackle it – will win support ahead of next summer’s elections to the European parliament.
On the other side, wolf-haters claim that this ruthless carnivore’s return has been naively championed by the tofu-munching wokerati who know nothing of the countryside, elevate the welfare of animals above people, and inflict misery upon farmers, hunters and country folk.
For all the wolf’s wild symbolism, it is thriving in human-dominated landscapes: the intensively farmed countryside and even suburban areas of eastern Germany with human population densities higher than the city of Newcastle.
According to Raoul Reding, the association’s biologist who oversees the meticulous recording of populations, we are witnessing an unprecedented experiment: “It’s never happened before, anywhere in the world, that such large carnivores would settle such densely inhabited human areas as we have here in Germany.”
Vice-president Jörn Ehlers hands me two stickers: one depicts a vicious-looking wolf with a sheep in its mouth barred with a red line; the other reads: IF YOU DON’T LIKE FARMING, STOP EATING.
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