Fish Otter Shots: Animal Protectors Sound the Alarm
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Almost 4000 otters live in the wild in Austria. The animal protectors of the WWF nevertheless sound the alarm. Because: The many approved shootings of the animals – also in Salzburg – would contradict the EU protection regulations.
Around 4,000 otters live in Austria – but the WWF sees the strictly protected species as acutely threatened. The reason for this are blanket killing clearances in several federal states, which, according to the nature conservation organization, undermine the European species protection law. Particularly explosive: In Salzburg, killings in so-called "free zones" are even allowed without a ceiling.
NGO criticises, among other things, flat-rate killing releases
According to WWF, nearly 4,000 otters are found throughout Austria, but NGOs see domestic stocks in danger. According to a recent WWF analysis, the federal states would undermine the EU's species protection law with flat-rate clearances for the strictly protected predators. Four countries would allow the killing of up to 186 otters per year within their quotas, without examining the cases individually, according to a message sent on Tuesday.
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