The claim
Laundry baskets are placed in nature to protect fawns. These should not be removed or touched.
Our conclusion
This information is correct. The laundry baskets are used to protect fawns from danger from tractors during mowing.
The call is particularly popular when farmers mow their meadows.
Deer often use the tall grass as a protective environment to lay their fawns here. This means that the deer offspring are safe when, for example, deer go looking for food.
Fawns then stay in this place because they have not yet developed an escape instinct. They also have no smell of their own, which would lead potential enemies to the young animal. However, when mowing time comes, deer fawns are in great danger due to the mowing devices on tractors. It is virtually impossible for tractor drivers to spot a dropped fawn while mowing.
Posts again and again on Facebook calling for people not to touch laundry baskets that they unexpectedly come across in nature and to leave them untouched:

ATTENTION
Text (sic!) from the Facebook post
If you see a laundry basket standing during your walk in nature - whether in a meadow, at the edge of the forest or on a field path - PLEASE do not touch this basket and above all do not lift it!!!
Under the basket there is usually a deer or other wild animal that was rescued by volunteers, farmers or hunters before a meadow was mowed.
Do not worry!
Immediately after the mowing work, the little ones are released again and can then go back to their mothers! But if this happens too early, there is a very high risk that the fawns will run back into the meadow and be caught by the mower and killed! And nobody really wants that! So we ask you...DO NOT approach and certainly do not lift the basket!
We thank you for your help!
Together we save lives!
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Is that actually the case?
Yes.
The process is described on the Facebook page “Jägerschaft Hameln-Pyrmont eV” Drones with thermal imaging cameras are used to rescue fawns. This has been agreed with the owner of the area and also the hunting tenant, as they must give their consent for drones to fly over the area.
If fawns are detected in the meadows, they are “covered” with laundry baskets or even cardboard boxes.
This spot is then marked accordingly in the meadow so that the farmer knows where the fawn is and can take this into account when mowing. As soon as the mowing is done, the “protective containers” are removed.
Conclusion
So the warnings circulating on Facebook are correct. The laundry baskets that you can come across on a walk in nature actually protect fawns.
You should definitely resist your curiosity or any “I have to clean up the trash” feeling that might arise and leave the laundry baskets or boxes standing and not touch them. Knowing that you have contributed your personal part to saving the fawns, you should be able to do this with a satisfied smile.
Source: Kitzrettung NRW
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