It was put together and a rarely high bounty was offered to locate the suspect who brought two black storks from the sky in Engelhartszell (Upper Austria). Incidentally, the strictly protected animals had nothing in their stomachs that would cause food envy in humans.
On August 6, Franz Kohlbauer, district spokesman for the Upper Austrian Nature Conservation Association in Schärding, was informed that two strictly protected black storks had been found dead at the Jochenstein power plant. He turned the carcasses over to BirdLife for investigation into the cause of death. This revealed that someone had shot the birds with shotguns.
‘A stroke hurts my heart’
The fact that the shy and rare animals had been poached met with a lot of misunderstanding. “Finally we had two successful broods in the area again. The attack hurts my heart,” says Kohlbauer, who has been campaigning for portfolio development for years. He emphasizes that only parts of plants and insects have been found in the stomachs of black storks.
Pooled for premium
At the beginning of this week, a bonus was offered for information leading to the arrest of the perpetrators. On Tuesday this was already 4200 euros. In addition to nature conservation, eco-hunting and a hunting association, private individuals have also made donations.
Source: Krone
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