A wolf has been spotted on the beach in St. Peter-Ording on the North Sea. An employee of the St. Peter-Ording tourist office had spotted the wolf on Friday morning and reported it to the coordinator for wolf care in Schleswig-Holstein, as a spokeswoman for the tourist office said. This has confirmed on the basis of photos that it really was a wolf. The public order office and the tourist office therefore advised beach visitors to keep their distance from the animal, not to corner it and to leash dogs.
According to Jens Matzen, the coordinator of the wolf supervisors and crack assessor, there are currently two pairs of wolves living in Schleswig-Holstein without offspring. In addition, there are an estimated five or six individual animals that are somewhere in Schleswig-Holstein, said Matzen on Sunday.
Since its return to Germany in 1998, the wolf has been slowly spreading. According to the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) and the Federal Documentation and Advice Center on Wolves (DBBW), 161 packs, 43 pairs of wolves and 21 lone wolves were counted nationwide in the 2021/2022 wolf year (May 1 to April 30).
The wolf sighting in St. Peter-Ording is nothing unusual in itself, according to the Ministry of the Environment at the weekend. In late winter/spring, many of the young wolves living in Schleswig-Holstein would leave their packs and then often wander long distances in search of their own territories. Wolves often wandered through Schleswig-Holstein without staying long or becoming residents. In the meantime, the animal had left the beach again and had not been sighted again. The “Hamburger Abendblatt” had previously reported.
Information on wolf care in Schleswig-Holstein
