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DE Deutsche Beiträge anzeigen →Biggest Challenges in Fawn Rescue
It's 9 PM, the phone rings. A farmer wants to mow tomorrow — five fields, no coordinates, "the meadow behind the inn, left along the dirt road." I've already spent eight hours at the office today, was out in the field at 4 AM, and now I need to put together a team for tomorrow morning. I've lived through this exact scenario countless times over the past few years. Welcome to fawn rescue. There are many challenges in this volunteer work — from recruiting volunteers to insurance obligations and…
Why I'm Building Scout
Scout was born from a simple observation: fawn rescue needs better tools. Every year, one hundred thousand fawns are killed during mowing season in Germany. Many dedicated rescuers want to change that. Often, paper maps, WhatsApp groups, or Excel spreadsheets are used to coordinate, plan, and execute rescue missions. The result: extreme workload and stress on top of the sleep deprivation that comes from carrying fawns out of meadows every morning at 4 AM. Scout is meant to help. - Easy to use,…