Rehkitze Rescue: "A Feeling of Happiness" - Savers Save Rehkitze From Mowing Death

These are sharp shots that go to heart: When drone pilot Andreas Voß searches for a meadow for young animals, a Ricke has just set her tick. Right after that another one comes to the world. Also for the volunteers an "unbelievable event".

During mowing work, roe deer are killed again and again. To prevent this, it is important to search the meadows with drones beforehand. Thus, more and more lives can be saved.

In spring, there is another plan for many garden owners: mowing lawns. But the modern mowers are a deadly trap.

Press report of the PI Lohr a. Main from 21.05.2025 Rehkitz killed by mowing Partenstein, district Main-Spessart On 19.05.2025 residents of a meadow above the Roßbergweg first established the reputation of a geiß. On an inspection a dead deer could then be found, which was obviously killed by mowing. Whether by the responsible farmer in advance sufficient precautions were taken, to which these...

WALDRACH/GENSINGEN. The little deer just fits into two hands. Kirsten Gillert carefully carries it to the edge of a mown meadow and lays it down in the green. "It is always a feeling of happiness when you have saved a Kitz," says Gillert, head of the rescue of the deer Hegering Ruwer from the Trier-Saarburg district association of the Rhineland-Palatinate Regional Hunting Association (LJV). She wears gloves [...]

During mowing work, roe deer are killed again and again. To prevent this, it is important to search the meadows with drones beforehand. Thus, more and more lives can be saved.