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Munich (dpa / lby) - Dozens of wild animals in Bavaria have been illegally killed in the past two years.
This emerges from a report of the “Tatort Natur” project, which is to be presented this Thursday in Munich and which is available to the German Press Agency in advance.
It lists a total of 75 reported cases for 2019 and 2020 with 121 wild animals killed from 17 protected species.
The number of unreported cases is "certainly many times higher".
Birds of prey such as red kites, buzzards or eagle owls were often victims, followed by kestrels, beavers, hawks, marsh harriers, sea eagles and lynxes.
In the district of Cham, according to the information, a whole flock of starlings was poisoned with the insecticide carbofuran, which is banned in the EU.
The report names the districts of Cham, Neustadt ad Aisch-Bad Windsheim, Pfaffenhofen ad Ilm, Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen, Landshut and Roth as hotspots for the illegal killing of wild animals.
Documented methods of killing were poisoning, trapping, shelling or the destruction of animal homes such as the beaver dam.
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On Tuesday, the registration and documentation center for raptor tracking and species protection crime (EDGAR), based in Bonn, reported 185 cases with more than 450 wild birds killed in the Free State.
Since 2005 data have been collected and the number of registered cases is increasing, said a spokesman for the "Committee against Bird Murder".
This is also due to the increasing awareness of the public and the authorities for this issue.
According to the spokesman, far more than 1,000 cases have been reported across Germany in the past ten years, most of them in North Rhine-Westphalia, followed by Bavaria.
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