Overview

• Around 90 sheep and lambs have been killed on Sylt since May 19, overwhelming local shepherds who cannot pen their flocks overnight.
• Schleswig-Holstein’s Umweltministerium issued an artenschutzrechtliche Ausnahmegenehmigung, mobilizing about 130 licensed hunters to track the protected jackal through July.
• Camera trap images in the Pfälzerwald delivered the first confirmed Goldschakal sighting in Rheinland-Pfalz, signaling its north-western range expansion.
• DNA analysis of fur and tissue samples from attack sites established that a single Goldschakal was responsible for the livestock losses.
• Researchers warn that the adaptable Goldschakal, originally from Southeast Europe, has steadily spread across Central and Northern Europe since its 1997 debut in Brandenburg.