Hunting & Services

Fawn rescue

Agree on mowing plans early, identify areas clearly and protect young wildlife together.

Protecting wildlife together

Young game rescue takes teamwork

We recommend close cooperation between farmers, agricultural contractors, people authorised to hunt and available fawn rescue teams. Planning mowing together well in advance creates better conditions for protecting fawns and other wildlife in the fields.

Our advice: Keep in touch outside the mowing season too, and agree on areas, dates and contacts in good time. Before each mowing, discuss together which measures are suitable for the area concerned. This helps ensure that people, equipment and feedback to the land manager can be planned reliably.

A fawn being carefully secured with gloves before mowing — Plan ahead, search together and protect fawns before mowing.

Prepare an enquiry

01 · Responsibility

Bringing hunting grounds and land managers together

Inform the authorised hunting-rights holder responsible well in advance about the planned mowing. If you do not yet know who to contact, our hunting-ground maps can help you identify them; the association contact can forward an enquiry to the local group leader.

Find your local hunting group and hunting ground →Contact the association →

02 · Area data

Clearly specify the location, area and date

Municipality, precise location and, if possible, plot number or map point
Size of the area to be mown and name of the hunting ground
Planned mowing date and a contact for urgent queries

This information helps a team that has been contacted to assess the deployment. A request is not yet a confirmed commitment.

03 · Planning together

Agree on the approach and feedback

Agree with the person entitled to exercise hunting rights and an available team which measures suit the area, who will be involved and when you will receive feedback. Any changes to the mowing date should be part of this discussion.

The LfL provides specialist procedures and checklists in its Mowing Guide. Responsibility for carrying them out rests with those in charge on site.

Official checklists and mowing guide ↗

Source: LfL: Planning and cooperation

Thermal and visible-light camera images of two roe deer fawns in tall grass — Thermal image and camera image: fawns are well hidden in the long grass.

Voluntary · Local · For nature

Fawn Rescue Freihausen, Wissing e. V.

The regional rescue team uses thermal-imaging drones to search for fawns in fields before mowing. Arrange any potential deployment directly with the contacts well in advance.

Give the municipality, exact area, planned mowing date and a telephone number for call-backs. Availability and arrangements will be agreed with the team and those responsible on site.

Paul Holweck

0170 / 6776851

Jakob Hoier

0151 / 59879442

Contact names and telephone numbers as listed in the club flyer provided.

Association flyer for Rehkitzrettung Freihausen, Wissing e. V., with contact people and services — View the full association brochure ↗

A closer look at rescue work

Protected until the danger has passed.

Two roe deer fawns on grass in a safety box during fawn rescue — Fawns in a safety box during a rescue operation.

Notice on a fawn rescue box: do not open or touch fawns — The notice on the box makes it clear: do not open it or touch the animals.

Please do not open the security boxes. The rescue team, in consultation with those responsible on site, looks after the secured animals and decides when they may be released.

Further information

LfL: mowing guide and checklists ↗
Practical preparation for farmers, contractors and hunters.