Where the birds chirp, the bees buzz, the flowers bloom and the wolves rip your sheep apart.

You know. Natural stuff like that? Ah, nature is so Green (and sometimes red). And Germany is so Green it hurts.

Wolves, once confined to fairy tales, are back in Germany, stirring debate – “It took me a moment to realize what was coming out of the forest,” said the 37-year shepherdess, recounting one eventful day last summer in northwest Germany.

She was grazing her herd in a tree-lined field when she saw the wolf pounce.

“Aiiieee,” she screamed, recording with her phone as she launched herself toward the shaggy, slinking figure that had locked on to one of her ewes.