Overview
- The Untere Jagdbehörde formally recognized an emergency feeding period on Thursday and instructed the Rottach-Egern hunting board to resume supplemental feeding.
- The order followed a reassessment requested by Landrat Olaf von Löwis as forecasts pointed to continued subzero temperatures and heavy snowfall.
- Bavarian Hunters’ Association local chair Wolfgang Mayr and Mayor Christian Köck welcomed the decision, with the mayor noting that feeding sites are prepared with new racks.
- Rottach-Egern’s hunting board had ended routine winter feeding in 2025, citing the legal limit to true emergencies, which left three sites empty during the current frost.
- Animal welfare advocates condemned the earlier refusal as causing needless suffering, and stakeholders are pressing for clear, binding criteria to define when feeding is required.