Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) – The four so far considered sedentary lynx in the country have poor chances of a successful blind date with a female lynx in the mating season in February and March. Because the female lynxes still make a wide bend around the southwest. And it will stay that way for longer. Because the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Environment is skeptical about actively supported resettlement. Among other things, the state has to pay for damage caused by the lynx, said a spokesman for the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Environment.
Forest Minister Peter Hauk, on the other hand, is fundamentally open to supporting the lynx population in Baden-Württemberg by reintroducing female animals. Plans were in the drawer that a paper on dealing with the lynx in Baden-Württemberg should be presented this year. However, the prerequisite is broad acceptance among those affected. “There is currently still room for improvement,” admitted the CDU politician. “We currently see the necessary acceptance as not yet sufficiently given.”
The spokesman for the Ministry of the Environment raised hope, however, and referred to an alternative: Natural re-immigration is possible, even if it will probably take a long time before a population of its own could be built up in the country. Lynx could, for example, immigrate from the reintroduction project in the Palatinate Forest. The immigration of the so far only male lynx shows that the establishment of an independent lynx population through immigration is not impossible. “It also took a long time for black storks and now they have become well established in some areas of the country,” said the ministry spokesman.
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