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Hanover (dpa / lni) - After the shooting down of two female wolves in Lower Saxony, the Greens declared the state government's wolf policy to have failed.
The two killed animals were "in the truest sense of the word a pawn", so far not a single problem wolf has been killed, said Christian Meyer, Green parliamentary deputy and nature conservation spokesman, on Tuesday in Hanover.
Obviously, the shooters commissioned by Environment Minister Olaf Lies could not identify the wolves they were looking for by age and gender.
The animals killed are not related to attacks by wolves.
According to the Federal Environment Ministry and the Lower Saxony State Office for Water Management, Coastal Protection and Nature Conservation, both cases are puppies, said Meyer.
He criticized: "This Wild West method of simply shooting any animals has now cost the lives of two pups and is incompatible with the strict protection status of the wolf."
This practice must be stopped immediately.
"The shooting of puppies is clearly illegal and forbidden after the approval of the environment ministry," emphasized Meyer.
"The wolf policy of the SPD minister has failed terribly."
With a special permit, a female wolf was hunted in the Ebstorf area in the Uelzen district at the end of February, and a female animal was shot down near Löningen in the Cloppenburg district in mid-February.
The so-called Herzlaker pack resident in the area had killed around 500 sheep since September 2018.
The exemption for shooting, however, referred to a male wolf, to whom the cracks could mostly be assigned.
There are around 350 wolves in Lower Saxony.
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Meyer explained that the minister had "got lost" because he had given up sending packs of wolves for targeted kills for three years.
Flat-rate releases are a violation of nature conservation and do not protect a single grazing animal.
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