Fight for biodiversity: hunters rely on habitat improvement!

Fight for biodiversity: hunters rely on habitat improvement!

The Grafschaffer Hunterschaft has shown a strong commitment to improving habitats and the management of predate this year. A central problem is the sudden spread of myxomatosis under frame bunnies, which means that the hunters have to become even more active in order to protect the wildlife stocks. Thanks to the support of over 50 thermal drones, the hunters, animals such as floor breeders and unprotected young animals help to preserve during the sensitive agricultural spring work, since they are often overlapped with the birth dates of different wild animals, such as ems-vechte-surfer.de reported

Another aspect of predate management is the use of special fishing detectors and living traps. This year, 220 fishing detectors and 133 live traps were purchased to control predatory mammals such as foxes and martens, which represent a threat to endangered bird species such as the big bird of fallow and the lapwing. The increase in the population of these predators is an alarming phenomenon, which is promoted by successful rabies fighting and constant food availability, as Biotopfonds.de . The hunters are planning to expand these measures to stabilize and maintain wild animals, while biodiversity projects such as creating Beetle Banks to create habitats were started as a pilot test.

focus on the habitat

The creation of new structures in the field should be promoted the number of insects, birds and other wild animals. Beetle Bank was designed as an innovative concept in which special stripes are created between fields to offer insects and other animal species a livelihood. While positive results from similar projects in Germany are already known, the commitment of the hunters are also transferred to new hedge plantings in ash. These measures aim to strengthen the connections between different habitats and thus maintain the wildlife population sustainably. In times when many species are threatened, the protection and enrichment of habitats is more urgent than ever.