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30 Endangered animals in southern Hesse exhausted - species protection project planned by 2029
Pfungstadt. In Hesse, the field hamster is one of the acutely endangered animal species. In order to secure its inventory, the regional council (RP) Darmstadt, together with the landscape maintenance association Darmstadt-Dieburg , the breeding station of the state of Hesse and the district care department of the district, launched a comprehensive protection project. As part of this project, 30 field hamsters near Pfungstadt were released . The corresponding funding decision was made on Tuesday by District President Prof. Dr. Jan Hilligardt to Viktor Gretz , managing director of the landscape maintenance association.
Cooperation for more biodiversity
The common goal: to make 30 field hamsters annually until 2029 to build a stable population in southern Hesse. The area near Pfungstadt used for this is one of the last retreat areas for the field hamster in the region.
The President of the District emphasizes the importance of the project:
"The protection of the field hamster exemplifies the challenges and opportunities of modern species protection. We can only receive threatened species in the long term through the cooperation between agriculture, nature conservation and research."
Delivery in the "Hamsterhotel"
The 30 animals planned this year were released in the “Eschollbrücken” project area at the end of May - under safe conditions in a so -called “hamster hotel” , which is protected with an electric fence. This procedure has already proven itself in previous projects.
The supervising breeding station is operated by the Hessian Society for Ornithology and Nature Conservation (Hgon) . There will be regular offspring there in the next five years.
Feldhamster: Only ten populations in Hessen
The field hamster has dramatically lost the habitat in the past decades. only around ten known populations in Hesse , while there were 58 in the past. The project at Pfungstadt is intended to help to stop this development and to establish a self -preserving population.
Further information on the project can be found on the website of the Darmstadt regional council:
👉 rp-darmstadt.hessen.de/naturschutz
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Contribution picture: At the place where 30 Feldhamster were released at the end of May: President of the District Prof. Dr. Jan Hilligardt (middle right) handed over the grant to Viktor Gretz (center left; managing director of the landscape maintenance association Darmstadt-Dieburg). Photo: RPDA
