An unknown offender has meadows last week on a beautiful small mountain on the loose hofen-driven: He poisoned the plants!

nature protection guard Michael Keller couldn't believe what he saw two days before the ascension, during a check of the well-kept blind to the meadows Southeast of the small mountain hofen: this is the district belonging to the wet meadow were almost withered all the flowers, plants and deformed, including specially protected or endangered species such as the broad-leaved marsh Orchid, the marsh-Marigold or the Great Burnet. Together with fresh tractor tracks which is a clear indication, the district office, that the entire surface of an Unknown herbicides were applied.

In the Meadow is a regionally significant wet meadow with a spring swamp, a protected wetland area and the biotope mapping of Bavaria, recorded and the was sustainable, and considerably damaged, so the district office.

The cumming of the Great Burnet-stock also has the consequence that the naturally occurring Dark knob meadow-species of large blue butterfly, a highly endangered and strictly protected species, its food plant, and thus, his livelihood lost.

The area has been maintained over many years, the landscape maintenance Association and the Mahdgut as the hay utilized. As a result, a more stable stock will develop. Through the use of pesticides, efforts for the protection of species have been wiped out.

The district office has filed a complaint. Witnesses have made in the week before ascension observations, to report to the PI Dachau, 0 81 31/56 10. dn