Wolf Protection Ordinance has been in place in Bavaria for about a year. There were only recently three breaches caused by wolves in the Allgäu.
Different regulations in different countries lead to “pure chaos” in Europe, says a legal scientist. In 2023, "130 wolf records were officially confirmed' in the Bavarian region. In the previous year, there were more than 4,200 livestock deaths. Of these, a large proportion can probably be attributed to wolves, says Barbara Oswald, the wolf representative of the AVA. The AVA is calling for greater protection of the AllGäu cultural landscape. This has come under "more and more pressure" due to the increasing presence of wolves, Rolf Eberhardt, managing director of the Nagelfluhkette Nature Park, says. The event attracted many interested people, so that the large hall was packed. Most of them would probably not see the wolf as a "symbol of a romanticized return to nature," as Prof. Roland Norer suspected.