In the night from Friday to Saturday, a mother cow was mauled by wolves on Alp Nurdagn on the Schamserberg in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. This crack is the first case in the canton directly adjacent to Vorarlberg where an adult farm animal from the cattle family was killed by one or more wolves. The site is in the home range of the so-called “Beverin pack”, which has repeatedly caused a stir in the past.
The seven-year-old mother cow was in a fenced area with other congeners. “The killed animal was used intensively by the wolves,” the Graubünden hunting and fishing agency explains in a broadcast. In the Beverin herd habitat, the threshold for the number of livestock killed in herds of sheep and goats protected from regulatory shooting under Swiss federal law had already been reached before the current shooting incident.
However, under current Swiss law, regulation shots are only possible if the offspring can be confirmed in the pack.
Deterrence attempt on site
The Wildhut will now immediately attempt to stun a wolf from the Beverin pack at the crack location and equip it with a GPS transmitter. This measure is intended to achieve a deterrent effect. A transmitter also creates the opportunity to collect more information about the spatial behavior of the animals.
This can also be helpful, among other things, for enforcing regulatory approvals in accordance with applicable federal law.
Concerns about the behavior of the wolves
The competent authorities in the canton fear that wolves from the Beverin pack have been behaving very problematically for years. The killing of an adult mother cow corresponds to a further, new and more serious level of intervention compared to the development of risks and harm in sheep and goats.
Source: Krone
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