Hungary's anti-migrant fence disrupts wildlife habitats
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DUBOSEVICA- Hungary's razor-wire border fence aims to keep refugees from entering the country -- but it's also blocking the natural migratory patterns of thousands of deer and other wild animals.
Large herds of red deer used to roam freely across the Croatia-Hungary border, their numbers steadily expanding in this wildlife-rich corner of Europe. But environmental protection activists and hunters in Croatia now warn the numbers have begun declining since the border fence went up last year.
At first, deer would get tangled in the wire and killed, but animals soon began recognizing the danger.
But Croatian animal activists warn the long-term impact of the fence on the deer population in the protected natural area of Baranya -- especially the smaller chunk located in Croatia -- is severe and will go far beyond the agonizing animal deaths in the barbed wire.
