The Saxon State Farmers Association expects a growing number of wolf attacks on grazing animals. Chief executive Wolfgang Uhlemann justified this on Tuesday with the increased number of pups by about one fifth. "They're getting bigger now and they want to eat. Unfortunately, they don't eat heads of lettuce (...). We don't want to eradicate the wolf. But we need a population management that is tolerable for grazing animal owners," Uhlemann told the German Press Agency. Previously, the Chemnitz "Free Press" had reported.
According to the State Office for the Environment, Agriculture and Geology, 147 cases of damage were reported from January to mid-August. It is considered certain that wolves killed, injured or carried off 368 farm animals. In most cases, sheep are affected. But also game in enclosures and cattle were attacked. Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke (Greens) had recently spoken out in favor of making it easier to shoot wolves. Saxony wants to decide in the future faster whether a wolf is shot.
