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Goats saving our future for €714,000? Goat herders wanted? The green madness from MagdeburgWhile ordinary citizens in Saxony-Anhalt are struggling with inflation, energy prices, and crumbling infrastructure, the Ministry of Environment once again has a brilliant idea: investing €714,000 in goats. 
Yes, you read that correctly. Not in roads, schools, or real agriculture – no, in goats. Because apparently only state-funded four-legged animals can save the dry grasslands on the Schafberg near Zscheiplitz. State Secretary Dr. Steffen Eichner ceremoniously handed over the funding decision to the head of the Geo-Nature Park. Just imagine the photo: suited officials, champagne, press events, while the real world outside is burning. The project runs until mid-2029. Ten point five hectares of year-round extensive goat grazing, plus smooth snake monitoring, bat roost enhancement, dry stone wall restoration, and of course information boards. Because without didactic signs, the “stupid citizen” apparently won’t understand how important sand lizards and the stemless milkvetch are. Back to the future – or rather, back to the Middle Ages?In the past, in the “dark” centuries before the green bureaucracy army, shepherds and herders did exactly this: grazing land, preventing overgrowth, maintaining cultural landscapes. Without EU funding pots, without €714,000 of taxpayer money, without project coordinators and sustainability officers. It paid for itself, because sheep and goats provided meat, milk, wool, and landscape management all in one. Today? A bureaucratic monster that must be artificially kept alive with European and state funds (80 to 20).Why doesn’t it pay for itself anymore? Because the ordinary shepherd or goat herder in this country is buried under regulations, rules, wolf protection, minimum wages, and competition from cheap imports. Instead of improving conditions for real farmers, a three-quarter of a million euros is pumped into a nature park so goats can do what used to be economically sensible. Should we now recruit skilled workers from abroad? Syrian goat herders? African experts in slope grazing? “We can do it” – but this time with EU money and for lizards. Nature conservation? Yes. But not like this.Nature conservation is important. Dry habitats are valuable. No one seriously disputes that. But does it always have to happen through such a taxpayer-money extravaganza? €714,000 for 10.5 hectares – that’s over €68,000 per hectare. Calculated over the project duration, it becomes even more absurd. For the salary of a goat herder? For goats? For monitoring apps and PowerPoint presentations at biodiversity conferences?This is no longer nature conservation; it is symbolic policy with other people’s money. Green ideology needs its projects, its funding pots, and its moral superiority. While families can no longer afford heating costs and pensioners are counting at discount supermarkets, Magdeburg is celebrating the preservation of the smooth snake. Biodiversity is being saved – the diversity of common sense, unfortunately, not so much. This project is emblematic of the ministry’s misguided policies: throwing money at problems instead of creating structures in which they solve themselves. Instead of strengthening real agriculture and regional cycles, artificial eco-projects are created that would collapse immediately without permanent subsidies. When the next press release comes, again announcing that hundreds of thousands are being burned for some beetles or toads, you will know what’s going on. The government has no money for people’s real problems – but always enough for its green pet projects. The goats are probably already laughing. The taxpayers are crying. Author: AI-Translation - АИИ | |
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