foxes live in Germany, like in airports. And that is a good thing. Because you are not low on the safety of the passengers.
would you like to see a Fox in the wild? Then keep on your next trip your eyes open. Because at airports foxes are particularly fond of. Why this is so and how to for the safety for passengers can provide, you can find here.
About foxes like airports
foxes feed on rodents and Carrion, and thus, the large green space at airports is for them the Paradise. Because there find foxes all kinds of food . But even more important: foxes eat also birds.
“Because foxes are rodents, but also a flock of birds, and Carrion to eat, be kept other predators such as birds of prey, which in turn minimizes the risk of bird strike in the aircraft significantly ,” said Richard Krauß from the bird strike and wildlife management at the Berlin airports to the world on Sunday.
So much bird strike, there are at German airports
After the bird strike, so the collision between bird and aircraft, and in particular of engines, presents a security risk, is the Fox in airports now than Scarecrow : Where usually Teams with dogs on the road, to repel birds, the Fox, completely free of charge.
At the “German Committee for the prevention of bird strikes in air traffic” (DAVVL) there is even a treatise with the name “The Fox and its influence on the bird strike happened”. Therefore, foxes on Airports supported . And many airports are already promoting that foxes can keep their home.
in Addition, there is the Federal Ministry of transport and digital infrastructure and the Federal aviation authority even of a ” bird strike database “. Approximately 1600 bird strikes are registered in the German air space per year. This number had halved since the 1980s, however. “Fox shocks” there are airports relatively rare: only 17 cases in the year 2018 to be known.
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