Healthy bison girl born

We are hap­py about the birth of our first bison off­spring this year. On the bison pas­ture, at the park­ing lot Criewen behind the chick­en farm, our small bison herd has grown. It is thanks to the care­ful care of the expe­ri­enced cat­tle breed­er and organ­ic farmer Nor­bert Meene from Criewen that all bison kids could grow up healthy and live­ly last year. This is not self-evi­­dent. The dan­ger comes less from the wolf, the fam­i­ly mem­bers already defend their youngest, but the social inte­gra­tion into the group must suc­ceed. We hope that this will be the case again this year.
The mean­while quite respectable bison breed­ing is a con­tri­bu­tion of the Low­er Oder Val­ley Nation­al Park Foun­da­tion for the preser­va­tion of a rare ani­mal species. After the two world wars only a few breed­able wild cat­tle were left, on which the entire world­wide pop­u­la­tion is now based. Today, the last native wild cat­tle — the wild Ur (aurochs) was irre­triev­ably wiped out in the 17th cen­tu­ry — live not only in gates as in the Low­er Oder Val­ley, but also in the wild, in Ger­many in a field tri­al in the Rothaar Moun­tains, in Poland in many places in the coun­try, for exam­ple also in the West Pomeran­ian Voivode­ship, not far from the Low­er Oder Val­ley Nation­al Park. Soon­er or lat­er they will come across the Oder Riv­er and immi­grate, rather return home, hop­ing for a hos­pitable wel­come. The Low­er Oder Val­ley Nation­al Park is look­ing for­ward to the home­com­ers and is prepar­ing for their arrival with an enclo­sure that is unfor­tu­nate­ly still nec­es­sary for legal reasons.

Dr. Ans­gar Vöss­ing Board of Directors