Results of the project Rotwild in Baden Württemberg presented

"For a healthy and stable red deer population, we have to increase the genetic diversity of this wild species in order to ensure the adaptability of the populations itself. Class = "Link-External"> Forest test and research institute Freiburg (FVA) and coincides with the challenge in Germany with grinding red deer deposits. Tackling the variety of red deer, ”said Peter Hauk, Minister of Nutrition, Rural Area and Consumer Protection, on Tuesday, June 6, 2023, as part of a red deer symposium in Karlsruhe, in which the results of the project "Rotwild in Baden Württemberg"

targeted measures for genetic exchange

One of the biggest challenges for a densely populated country like Baden-Württemberg, with high infrastructure density, can be achieved a genetic exchange between the red deer areas. This can be achieved, for example, by spending red deer between the areas. The spatial distance and barriers such as streets and settlements contribute to isolation. Each area requires individual measures.

"The resolution of the red deer areas in Baden-Württemberg would not be a solution because the problem of genetic impoverishment cannot be solved. href = "https://mlr.baden-wuerttemberg.de/de/unsere-themen/wald-und-nature experience" Class = "Link-External"> Wald , against the background of nutritional security and the structure of climate-like mixed forests, but also the people and forest owners in Baden-Württemberg ", emphasized Minister Peter Hauk.

The red deer areas differ among each other in their size, red wild density and their distances. "I am convinced that it will be possible to reverse the trend of genetic impoverishment in red deer. This will be a permanent task, because how quickly the genetic state can be improved is currently uncertain. We will therefore tackle individual measures in the existing red deer areas on the basis of the scientific knowledge and continue to evaluate them," says Minister Peter Hauk. The minister announced that this topic should be called up as part of the "Waldbau und hunting" working group.

collaboration with other federal states

A concentration exclusively in Baden-Württemberg is not sufficient. Rather, with the neighboring countries of Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse and Bavaria, a joint improvement of the genetic variance between existing adjacent red deer areas must be sought. An important basis for the population network of existing neighboring red deer areas is the currently developed General game plan . Redwild often uses traditional hiking trails for generations. These should flow into a population composite concept to be worked out. "For the merging red deer areas, we will have to approach the other countries in order to achieve an improvement in the situation together, because we cannot solve the genetic challenges alone," said Minister Peter Hauk.

"The red deer areas in Baden-Württemberg have proven themselves. The knowledge bases and concepts developed in the past 20 years are continued in the red game areas in the sense of a knowledge-based red deer management and are synonymous with a very successful and nationwide-recognized dealings with red deer," said Minister Peter Hauk.

Other flanking measures are ongoing population and damage monitoring as well as functioning healing communities in which the landowners sit at the table.

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