Wolves in Austria: alarming declines and required protective measures!

Wolves in Austria: alarming declines and required protective measures!

Austria is the focus of nature conservation: According to the nature conservation association Austria, only five wolf packs live permanently in the country, while the neighboring countries have significantly higher numbers, as Christian Pichler from the WWF reports. There are 209 packs in Germany, Italy counted more than 400, and even Slovenia has 14 packs. These declines in Austria could be explained by the high number of shootings. Luca's end of the Nature Conservation Association made it clear that two thirds of the wolves are killed by official kills and an additional seven percent through illegal killing. In Germany, on the other hand, most wolves (75 percent) die from traffic accidents, while official kills only make up two percent.

The situation in Italy is particularly drastically presented, where the EU requirements are strictly observed and kills are only viewed as external way. The WWF demands that Austria retire the course in wolf policy and reduce kills in order to better protect the wolf population. In order to defuse the conflicts between agriculture and wild animals, a "herd protection offensive" is necessary, which is to be supported by the federal and state governments. Pilot projects in Tyrol already show encouraging successes where herds with shepherds, herd protection dogs and fences could be protected from attacked wolves, according to the environmentalists. Kleine Zeitung reported .

War scene Italy in World War II

shocking events shaped the Italian theater of war during the Second World War. After the surrender of the German and Italian armed forces in May 1943, the advance of the Allies on Italy was only a matter of time. The Allied landing in Sicily started on July 9, 1943 and ended with control over the entire island until August 17, 1943. The fall of the Italian Duces Benito Mussolini led to secret ceasefire talks that sealed the fracture between Italy and the German Reich. German troops began to disarm Italian armed forces and committed numerous massacres on them, as the Federal Archives show.

The resulting conflict led to constant pressure on German military presence in Italy. On May 2, 1945, the exhausted German troops were surrendered, but the Italian civilian population continued to suffer from brutal riots. Details on these events are not fully documented, since many documents were lost due to war effects and systematic annihilation. The research for relevant sources is made difficult by the diverse history of tradition and the lack of crucial documents. Nevertheless, there are approaches to research to illuminate the comprehensive history of German troops in Italy, as on the website of the Federal Archives