Overview

• Messner names traffic chaos, influencer-driven selfie tourism and wolves as key issues in the Alps in a new interview.
• He urges shuttles for hotspots like the Drei Zinnen and a motorcycle ban on Dolomite passes to curb congestion.
• On wildlife, he says wolves should be killed or sterilized to protect livestock and alpine pastures.
• Italian animal-protection groups condemn the stance as false and misleading, pointing to coexistence measures such as fences, herd dogs and compensation.
• The comments come after 31 confirmed wolf attacks on an Obervinschgau pasture, a provincially authorized removal of two wolves and the shooting of one on 12 August, with EU rules having lowered the species’ protection on 14 July.