...Here is a short update from old Europe and the "first-world problems" it is creating/resolving...
A. Austro wolf / Source: august issue of the regional hunting
magazine
The 2017-wolf-litter counts 6 nice little "Schäferhund"-alike
non-herbivorous animals, increasing the wolf-population in
this army-training-area to a total of 11.
(The vociferous WWF told it's not him who introduced them
there...)
Their daily bag is 1,5 red dear calves , makes 550 per year or its meat equivalent of grown up red dear stags/hinds.
There is already a court case between the district authority
and the army ecologists how to count this wolf-bag against
the agreed upon hunting quota....

B. Regional hunting law amendments
The eastern province got now an amendment and it
sounds as if other neighbouring provinces are to follow domino-like.
(NB:This province has a reddie/bluie government).
The core of the amendment is that "Gatter-Jagden" (i.e. game kept in enclosures surrounded by a fence or a wall) will have to cease by 2023, up to then stringent controls.
The largest such Gatter/Tiergarten in Europe - about 1200 ha -
lies in this province.
Founded by the head of an aristo-clan in 1756 - he was
"Palatin" /i.e. emperor-deputy there .
The last head of this family died without issue.
The control of the Austrian properties belonging to
this family went to the nephew of the late princess, she was a former Budapest opera ballerina.( All of the Hungarian estates/
properties were confiscated/expropriated by the commies in 1948.)
This chap is a Hungaro-Swiss banker and immediately started to
rejunenate the vast economic empire ...
AND kicked out the local government from their feudal
residence in the princely palace.
An insider told me that the new law amendment is simply
the retaliation of the regional governor - by learned
profession a gymteacher in basic school - for being
kicked out from the feudal palace office residence.
A warm wellcome to this Hungarian Asterix and I am
keen to see their next round ....
Felix Neuberger

Last edited by felix; 08/08/17 02:06 PM.