Werneuchen – Icy Wind sweeps over the barren field, at the edge of the forest fog remains hanging. From a neighbouring box, it smells like cabbage. « Next Time, we’ll make an appointment in the summer, » says Robert Habeck and stomps with his hands in his Jeans through the mud. But then a flock of starlings taking off. « Oh, that’s nice, » says Habeck softly and smiles.
In the Brandenburg town of Werneuchen, the Green-head informed Thursday morning about the development of the local wolf population and the problems of living together with the people. Not an hour from the centre of Berlin, but a whole other world. So he is now here on the cold arable in front of the flock of sheep by Knut Kucznik, freezes, and listens to the shepherd. « I am not against wolves, but sheep, » says Kucznik. 450 animals that he protects, in the meantime, with livestock guarding dogs and electric fences. Trouble with the Wolf he’s never had. . 37 pack, and a couple, according to the Ministry of agriculture in Potsdam back in the Mark. Most in the Lausitz region, increasingly the animals out, but also in the Prignitz and in the Berlin suburbs. Also at the airfield in Werneuchen recently, two wolves were seen.
animal rights activists will be happy with the reintroduction of the shy and mystical animal that has been in this country eradicated about 100 years ago. On the other hand, the Fears and Concerns of farmers and rural population. Alone in 2017, kill wolves proven to 394 farm animals in the state of Brandenburg. But still, the animals are allowed to removed cases only in very exceptional, so will be shot If you approach people with, or demonstrably twice in secured flocks have been poached. For shepherds and farmers, it is barely detectable, whether it is really the same Wolf. So far have been released in the state of Brandenburg, only two wolves to kill.
« The bastards are everywhere now, » says Kucznik, who is also Chairman of the sheep breeders Association. Unlike many other grazing animal owners in Brandenburg, he rejects the active hunting of wolves, or an upper limit for the animals. He calls for more support for wolf management. The Land to pay to him the procurement of dogs, but not their maintenance. For this, he must expect per year, with around 2500 euros per dog. To install the new, higher fences would be significantly more time – will not be compensated for it.
Habeck listens patiently, nods often, is concentrated and is seeking courteous. Later, at a round table in the old Forester’s house, he pours the coffee for the whole round, in parting, he insists, the dishes in the kitchen clear. A gesture to normalcy and to create confidence. Also, the Chancellor should use the coffee Trick on a regular basis. In Brandenburg, the Green trust can use. As in so many East German länder, they are still relatively insignificant. However, next year the state Parliament to stand in the elections in Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg. What is the current height of the flight of the party is worth it, it will show then.
Actually, Anna Lena Baerbock has been as a means of identification person for the East, the party leadership’s chosen, but the issue of Wolf Habeck knows. Before he went into politics, he wrote together with his wife, a youth book about a Wolf and two children. « The conflicts I had to solve later, by myself, are already emerging, » says Habeck. « Later » refers to his time as Minister of agriculture in Schleswig-Holstein, as he had to first master the balancing act between animal welfare and the interests of pastoralists.
« If we want to, as a Jestbahis society, the settlement of the wolf and the shepherd to come clear with him, then we must support them financially, » says Habeck. For the purchase and maintenance of livestock guarding dogs, he wants the Federal regulations. But also the less formalistic shooting of wolves, which do not behave humanely, he said this was conceivable. Of the limits, or systematic Shooting of animals for the protection of the farmers, he maintains, but nothing. For him there is a conflict between Economy and Ecology. « In consequence, this would mean that anything that reduces the yield of multiplication, destroy. The starlings eat seeds and Grass. We need to eradicate so now the Stare?“
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However, Habeck would not have Habeck, when he came at some point on the basics. The controversy over the Wolf is a classic example of an « Either-or policy ». The wolf debate as the little sister of the migration debate. It is only about Winning, not a consensus. The studied philosopher wants a different style of politics. « There will be neither a solution, which produces a society of peace, if we eradicate the Wolf, even if we change the naive. » Habeck has spoken in the course of travel, in the forest, all silence now. « Amen, » says Habeck, a little embarrassed, then it’s back to Berlin.
