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Its December
2004, and this is about as far from virgin wilderness as you can
come. The surrounding landscape consists of forest patches sliced
into regimental squares by sandy tracks that are used for tanks and
other military vehicles. In the background are the smoke stacks of a
coal fired power stations, and at night the horizon glows with the
massive machinery that runs the open cast coal mine that feeds the
power station. The human caused scars in the Earth are massive.
However unlikely it may seem this is where wolves have chosen to
live. One or two packs have settled here, returning from across the
border in Poland. At present this toehold in Germany is fragile, but
it serves to underline that wolves can survive just about anywhere
where we let them. Creatures of the wilderness they are not. |
