Overview
- Forensic examination at the Leibniz Institute in Berlin confirmed a gunshot wound on the young wolf found near Troschenreuth in mid-October.
- The animal did not die instantly from the shot and, according to the autopsy, ultimately succumbed to emaciation.
- Police and the public prosecutor opened a case under the Federal Nature Conservation Act but have no leads on a weapon or perpetrator.
- A separate carcass discovered by a walker near Lam in the Upper Palatinate was confirmed to be a wolf, with the cause of death still under review by authorities.
- The Bavarian environment office states wolves are strictly protected and lethal control is permitted only in narrowly defined exceptional situations.