Hello Margo,
I could translate Marcel Trnovsky´s letter into German if you send it to me as a mail.
We should all be very aware that the hunting goes on since years, it actually never really stopped, though it never had this open official aggreement.
Since years there are rich hunters from other countries, especially Germany, that payed for being allowed to hunt wolves, and it looks like this kind of hunting even reached the national parks the last years. It seems there are no restrictions for people that are willing to pay enough.
Even the free wolves that appeared near our place at the Behemian-Bavarian-Border disappeared again and it is an open rumour that they were killed by tschech hunters in the national forrest. Also forrestmanagement and cattle keeping started again even in the stricly prohibited zones of the nationalpark where links and those wolfes lived.
I would suggest, that those of you who are better English writers than I am design some letters. Steffen Baldamus has a Slowakian colleague that translated letters for us before, maybe he could ask her and Sona Bognarove could be asked to translate them from English. So no Slovakian could pretend he doesn´t understand the protests.
It maybe would be a good idea to mention that you are very concerned that a furture Europian Union member is not willing to obey international law it has signed and that you will send a protest note to your EU parliament deligate.
It also was very successfull in former times and other countries to mention that a lot of tourists visit the country because of its wildlive and are especially interested in wolfes and bears and that those tourists will no longer come when red-list-animals are killed.
Last year an American Campain was quite succesfull not at least because a lot of people canceld the hotel rooms they booked some time before because of killed wolfes. The tourist-depending people in the region got quite nervous.
Regards
Ina
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