Neben Vertretern der großen deutschen Naturschutzorganisationen (BUND, NABU und WWF) sind auch internationale Gäste dabei. Maciej Tracz von der Europäischen Wisentstation Märkisch Friedland in Mirosłąwiec, Polen, berichtet über die "Grenzgänger" in Westpommern, die längst auch eine Heimat westlich der Oder gefunden haben. Und Kaja Heising von der Wisent Welt Wittgenstein in Bad Berleburg wird über die in Hessen gemachten Erfahrungen bei der Wiederansiedlung des Wisents berichten.

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Zu den "europäischen Big Five" zählen neben dem Wisent und dem Elch auch der Luchs, der Wolf und der Bär. Während Luchs und Wolf scheinbar unaufhaltsam wieder ihre alte Heimat besiedeln, hat es der Braunbär ungleich schwerer. Prof. Dr. Andreas Zedrosser von der Universität Oslo wird bei der Tagung in der Brandenburgischen Akademie Schloss Criewen über diesen "unbequemen Heimkehrer" sprechen.

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Germany is a country of immigration, whether you want to admit it or not. The surrounding sea may offer islands a certain amount of protection, if you can even talk about protection when it comes to migration. Germany is mostly separated from its neighbors by land borders. Not only people, but also plants and animals cross these borders, which are fortunately often green. For several years now, the large mammals mentioned above, which were at home in Germany in ancient times and east of the Elbe until the Middle Ages, have been increasingly migrating across the Oder-Neisse border in the east. They were gradually hunted, displaced and finally completely eradicated.

The wolf is also one of them. Its return to Germany is one of the great successes in nature conservation. But of course there is also a lot of discussion about the return of wolves to our cultural landscape.

Unlike the people in Romania or Bosnia, the Germans have theLiving together with the big five has been forgotten. The willingnessto step back, to give space, to accept disadvantages, to achieve equal rightsis rather low in this country. With a specialWildlife management is an attempt by the authorities to ensure the coexistence of large animalimmigrants and the local people, in big cities the sympathylarge, but rather small in rural areas. There is still a lot of convincing work to be done andBetter financial compensation is required, especially in the event of damage.

A few weeks ago we already mentioned the interesting Podcast on rewilding on detector.fm. This article does not just glorify the topic, but also points out problems with this approach.

Stefan Schwill from NABU explains that the goal of letting nature be nature is still not really established in Germany. The idea behind rewilding is to restore a natural order in certain areas. The difference to other renaturation approaches is that from a certain point onwards no more intervention is made. Nature is supposed to stabilize itself. Nature journalist Ralf Stork responds that humans have spread so widely across the country that ultimately there is not much space left for rewilding areas.

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