This is the hunting Association of Schleswig-Holstein (LJV) announced on Tuesday in Flintbek. After that, 16 hares were counted in the past year, an average of per square kilometers – more than 2018. Although the hare is everywhere in the country, varies the number depending on the Region. Especially many per square kilometre lived in the marsh. There, the hunters were 21 rabbits per square kilometre (2018: 21). In the hill country a little more than 15 animals (just under 15) and on the Geest 14 (11) goods, as LJV-President Wolfgang Heins said. The brown hare (Lepus europaeus) lives in fields and meadows, and forest edges and hedgerows. He gets its young in a shallow depression, the so-called Sasse. They are born with fur and open eyes, the throw strengths vary from one to six young animals.

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