The wolf at the door — again

The return of the wolf has revived an old dilemma: how to balance conservation with the realities of living alongside a predator.

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Dear Reader,

One of the delights of raising children in Germany is reading the Grimm fairy tales in the original. We own an unabridged collection which, amid the barrage of modern books seemingly designed to give children epilepsy, remains their favourite.

What becomes clear from reading them is that medieval Germans had a …