Gesa Kluth (born 1970 near Göttingen) is a German biologist and wolf expert.[1]

She studied biology in Bremen and in 1996 she worked with a wolf pack in Estonia as part of her diploma thesis. After spending some time in Brandenburg, she is currently living in Oberlausitz in Saxony, where the first free-living wolf packs in Germany have settled.[2]

Gesa Kluth is regarded as a wolf expert in Germany. Together with her colleague Ilka Reinhardt she founded in January 2003 the today's LUPUS - Institute for Wolf Monitoring and Research in Germany in Spreewitz,[3] north-west of the Military training area Oberlausitz, from where the re-spread of wolves in Germany took place.[4] Gesa Kluth works together with the International Fund for Animal Welfare, the Naturschutzbund Deutschland and the Saxon State Ministry for Environment and Agriculture. In Poland, the Polish biologist Sabina Nowak has a similar position. She sees it as one of her tasks to cooperate with livestock farmers in the region. The aim is to protect farm animals without killing wild wolves. Gesa Kluth is co-author of many specialist publications by members of the Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe.[5][6]

In 2003/2004 Gesa Kluth, Sebastian Körner and Ilka Reinhardt discovered a litter of hybrids in Lusatia which was to be taken from the wild. Only the mother animal and two of the young hybrids could be caught. The mother animal was released again.[7][8][9] At that time, wolf experts in Germany and Poland were not aware that the allele at the agouti-locus is a recessive gene that can only be expressed in the phenotype if both parent animals are genetic carriers of the gene. Otherwise they would have kept the mother animal in captivity.[10]

References

  1. ↑ Josefine Hinze: Gesa Kluth
  2. ↑ Biologie Seite: Gesa Kluth
  3. ↑ Circle of friends of wild wolves: With whom we work
  4. ↑ Society for Conservation Biology: Military training areas facilitate the recolonization of wolves in Germany Archived 2020-10-17 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ ResearchGate: Gesa Kluth LUPUS German Institute for Wolf Monitoring and Research
  6. ↑ Ilka Reinhardt, Petra Kaczensky, Felix Knauer, Georg Rauer, Gesa Kluth, Sybille Wölfl, Ditmar Huckschlag, Ulrich Wotschikowsky: Monitoring of wolf, lynx and bear in Germany 2015.
  7. ↑ Kontaktbüro Lausitz: Genetische Untersuchungen
  8. ↑ Ilka Reinhardt, Gesa Kluth: Genetische Identität - Hybridisierung page 49 and 105–106.
  9. ↑ Ansorge H., Holzapfel M., Kluth G, Reinhardt I., Wagner C.: Die Rückkehr der Wölfe Archived 2018-02-08 at the Wayback Machine Biologie Unserer Zeit, 2010, Band 40, page 250
  10. ↑ Eva Nessenius: Beweise für eine hybridisierte Gründerpopulation der Wölfe in Sachsen. In: Beiträge zur Jagd- und Wildforschung, 2019, Band 44, Seite 113–122.
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