for the First time may have attacked a Wolf in lower Saxony, a human, and injured. The incident occurred on Tuesday morning at the cemetery of the Bülstedter village of Steinfeld, a village about 35 kilometres North-West of Bremen. A community worker had been bitten, according to their own information in caring for a green plant at the cemetery in Steinfeld by a Wolf in the Hand, police said in a circle of red castle on Wednesday.

The 55-Year-old had knelt according to their own information while working on the fence on the ground with a Hand to the back focus. He had noticed that something held his Hand. When he looked around, he saw the Wolf grabbed for his Hand. Three other wolves of the pack had been watching the Situation with some distance. The man and the wolves, distribute free.

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incident fueled the conflict with animal rights activists

The Ministry of environment in Hannover confirmed a suspected attack. If the shield were applicable retention, have attacked for the first time in lower Saxony, a Wolf, a human. As a spokesperson for the country operated wolf’s office said, it investigated two employees of the reported incident. The injured worker had his Hand patched up, and possibly DNA could tracks make sure to check whether it was in fact the bite of a wolf.

The incident may bring the dispute to the protection of animals. Until wolves Jojobet were exterminated about 150 years ago, due to intensive hunting, belonged to Germany, to their natural area of distribution. Now he has returned. According to estimates, about 73 wolf pack living in Germany. Although the Wolf Habitat to the Fauna-Flora-Directive of the European Union is strictly protected, accumulate unlawful killings. To the wolves for more facts you can find here.

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with skepticism, the increasing distribution of animals, especially in the case of pastoralists, the care of their flocks. Normally, wolves mainly hunt deer, wild boar and red deer, succumbed to but farm animals too, if the opportunity offers. This is especially true of sheep and goats. These grazing animals make up only a fraction of the diet, however, were reported in the year 2016, nearly 300 Assaults with more than a thousand injured farm animals. Farmers receive compensation if a Wolf has killed their livestock, in spite of protective measures.

The risk to be actually a Wolf, however, is extremely low. In Europe for 40 years, no fatal wolf attack on people from an attack in the enclosure at a Swedish zoo, in which a guard died. Since wolves live in Germany, there is no documented incident in which one of the animals to a human-aggressive.

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