Michael Petrak

Michael Petrak (* 1956 ) is a German wildlife biologist and hunting scientist . He is head of the research center for hunting and game damage prevention in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Bonn .

Live and act

Michael Petrak completed a degree in biology from 1977 to 1982 at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen , which he graduated with a degree in biology . As early as 1983 he was with the work strategies of a red deer population (Cervus elaphus Linnaeus, 1758) in the Eifel to realize their life claims for Dr. rer. nat. PhD. From 1982 to 1989 he was a lecturer in the fields of behavioral research and general biology at the Department of Psychology at the University of Giessen . In 1987 he published the extensive results of a fallow deer study.

As Erhard Ueckermann's successor , he has headed the Research Center for Hunting and Game Damage Prevention of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in Bonn since 1989, which was a department of the State Institute for Ecology, Land Management and Forests of North Rhine-Westphalia (LÖBF) from 1994 and, following another administrative reform, from January 1 In 2007 briefly belonged to Department 4 of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection (LANUV) as "Dezernat 46" . Since then, it has been assigned to the State Forest and Wood Office in North Rhine-Westphalia as a higher hunting authority and integrated into the Arnsberg Forest Teaching and Experimental Forestry Office as a department. At the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the research center in 2007, NRW Environment Minister Eckhard Uhlenberg announced that the future of the facility is secure. Petraks and his team's research focuses on hunting issues, the etho-ecology of red deer , fallow deer , roe deer and wild boar as well as the interrelationships between game and vegetation on the one hand and game, habitat and humans on the other. Based on the knowledge gained, they develop practical solutions to balance the demands of wild animals and humans, such as concepts for national parks , winter sports , recreational areas as well as sustainable use and nature conservation .

Petrak is the author of several books and is a regular contributor to professional journals , including popular hunting magazines such as Deer and Dog .

Fonts (selection)

Etho-ecological studies on a red deer population (Cervus elaphus Linné, 1758) in the Eifel with special consideration of metabolic behavior , publications of the Working Group for Wildlife Biology and Hunting Science at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen (issue 10), Stuttgart 1982 ( ISBN 3-432 -93151-4 )
Strategies of a red deer population (Cervus elaphus Linné, 1758) in the Eifel for the realization of their demands for life , dissertation, Gießen 1983, in print as issue 13 of the series of publications of the working group for wildlife biology and hunting science at the Justus Liebig University Gießen, Stuttgart 1984 ( ISBN 3-432-94061-0 )
On the ecology of a fallow deer population (Cervus dama Linné, 1758) in the north-west German old moraine landscape of the Lower Saxony lowlands , publications of the working group for wildlife biology and hunting science at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen (issue 17), Stuttgart 1987 ( ISBN 3-432-96251-7 )
Care communities. Tasks and perspectives , Recklinghausen and Bonn 1997
Design of hunting grounds. Planning, developing, maintaining wild habitats , Stuttgart 2000 ( ISBN 3-440-07951-1 )
as the main author: wild boar. Biology, population reduction, social structures, containment of game damage, swine fever , game and dog Exklusiv 22, Singhofen 2003 ( ISBN 3-89715-022-0 )
together with Olaf Simon and Johannes Lang: Rotwild in the Eifel. Solutions for practice from the pilot project Monschau-Elsenborn , Klitten 2008 ( ISBN 978-3-936412-04-8 )

literature

Erhard Ueckermann : Dr. Michael Petrak Head of the Research Center for Hunting and Game Damage Prevention in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. In: Journal for Hunting Science. ISSN 0044-2887 , Vol. 35 (1989), H. 2 (June), pp. 139 f., Doi: 10.1007 / BF02242103 .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ The Research Center for Hunting and Game Damage Prevention as “Department 46” of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection (LANUV) ( Memento from January 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

↑ The Research Center for Hunting and Game Damage Prevention as a department of the Arnsberg Forest Teaching and Experimental Forestry Office of the State Forest and Wood Office in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Press release of the City of Bonn from September 11, 2007

personal data
SURNAME	Petrak, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German wildlife biologist and hunting scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	1956

[1] The Research Center for Hunting and Game Damage Prevention as “Department 46” of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection (LANUV) ( Memento from January 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive )