After the fatal attack on a jogger in Trentino, the discussion about predators in local forests flared up again. Univ.-Prof. Dr Klaus Hackländer (52), head of the Institute of Nature Biology at BOKU, on the rapid increase in stocks and cracks and the new normal: “In 10 years we will also have signs in the Vienna Woods.”
He comes from Ludwigshafen am Rhein, home of the chemical giant BASF and “the ugliest city in Germany”, as he says. The sympathetic 52-year-old owes his love of nature as a child to hiking holidays in Austria. With a smile he describes: “Very neat in checkered shirts, with hiking pins and a lot of enthusiasm. That’s how I started birdwatching.” He later studied conservation.The animal lover came to Austria for his PhD in 1997 and stayed.University Prof. Dr. Klaus Hackländer is head of the Institute for Wildlife Biology and Hunting Management at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna, board member from the German Wildlife Foundation, author and sought-after expert.
Source: Krone
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