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In the national park: speeders run over marmots!

Marmots are surprised, because the winding Glockner road between Fusch (Salzburg) and Heiligenblut (Carinthia) is degenerating into a race track.(Bild: Hannes Wallner)

It's unbelievable: the Glockner Road in the Hohe Tauern National Park is turning into a race track and many marmots are dying on the road. Videos show speeders in Porsches and co. going crazy, dead animals lying in the middle of the road. Animal rights activists try to save baby marmots whose mother has been run over, and the police announce strict priority checks.

Audi, Porsche, Lamborghini and many other sports cars are currently speeding up the Grossglockner High Alpine Road in fine weather, which meanders impressively between Carinthia and Salzburg through the protected landscape of the Hohe Tauern National Park. But the speeding through the high mountains escalates and claims victims time and again: "Cute marmots are run over!" complains Martina Gebert, "and the drivers don't even stop, they just keep on driving."