Bavaria allows otter shot again: nature conservation is in question

Bavaria allows otter shot again: nature conservation is in question

Söder allows Cotter Committee throughout Bavaria: German environmental aid criticizes new regulation and again offers joint search for solutions

From tomorrow, a new Exceptional Protection Legal Ordinance in Bavaria will come into force, which allows the shooting of the strictly protected otter. This regulation now applies to all of Bavaria. The German Environmental Aid (DUH) expresses sharp criticism that the Bavarian state government represents the shooting of the otter as inevitable for the pond economy and instead does not search for constructive solutions together with nature conservation associations.

Sascha Müller-Kraenner, the federal manager of the DUH, said: " Although we have stopped Söder's shooting plans with our lawsuit at the end of April, the Bavarian state government continues to target the strictly protected element . Consumption contingents can be determined in accordance with nature conservation law, and reasonable alternatives have been exhausted in view of inadequate data and the overload of the authorities. Style = "Font-Weight: Bold;"> It is high time to take effective measures to strengthen the ecologically significant pond economy instead of making the otter a scapegoat .

background:

In April 2023, the Bavarian State Government decided to have a shooting regulation against the strictly protected otter without listening to the opinion of associations. The DUH then filed a lawsuit and won it in front of the Administrative Court in Munich in April 2024. Now on August 15, a new launch of the Bavarian state government comes into force, which is mainly different from the old version by the fact that the subordinate specialist authorities are responsible for the implementation of the nature conservation requirements.