The city of Frankfurt, in the dispute about the wild goose in the Ostpark at your concept of a “view-protection”. In the meantime, with a hedge planted fence to keep the birds, as planned, to a large extent, on the lawns to make wide, said head of the environment Department Rosemarie Holy (Green) on Wednesday. Also the state bird protection station for Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and the Saarland, which accompanied the model project, reported the first Successes. The animals are grey-, Canada – and Nile geese.
The hedge is to block the birds, the view from the meadows on a lake – and so the desire to take on the human visitors to the popular Green to settle down. Especially the Gänsekot always causes resentment, on the banks of the river main. In the meantime, there had been criticism of the urban “geese Management”, as the Park reported by visitors of the birds that had flown over the fence easy.
Sacred said, in the case of the observation of the geese noticed that they went to the green plant is purslane. This could be a Chance to draw the birds and Marnie, by going to targeted sown in other areas. In addition to experimenting with different mowing intervals.
With the model project are to be found alternative measures in order to launch. “Our control measures, we do not want to banish the geese from Frankfurt,” said Holy. However, many people were disturbed especially at Nilgänsen. “We take account of and try to lure in other areas,” said Fischer.
