He Iberian Wolf has been threatened in Spain for decades. Their population won considerably in the second half of the twentieth century and dying out. To the north of the Duero, however, this species has experienced a slow and gradual recovery over the past decade, thanks to protection measures since then Many farmers have opted for coexistence and not for extermination and this formula works.
He The interest in the lack of protection of the wolf has again bound to the communities of the North Where this species lives to a greater extent (Cantabria, Asturias, La Rioja, Castilla y León and Aragon), but also to regional presidents where decades are not the presence of this animal, such as Andalusia, Castilla-La Mancha, Verencia, or even the Balary Islands and the autonomic cities of Ceuta and Ceuta.
Since the Right of governments adopted their positions, in most cases a campaign started based on false data on cattle attacks. In fact, they were repeatedly published on the websites of these communities and in their RRSS, not only the letters that Brussels complained about the wolves, but also provides excessive and unlikely information.
Wolf -persecution has no logic
The future of the Iberian wolf and efforts for coexistence between this unique species and extensive cavity of a wire afterwards Legislative maneuver of the popular party with the support of Vox, PNV and Junts. The change introduced in the senate has no form of scientific warranty and in the case of validated in the congress The door opens for the Matanzas de Lobos in Spain.
Moreover, the amendment feels one highly recorded For the protection of nature by changing the legal status of a kind of random and without public participationThrough an additional provision in a law that has nothing to do with the preservation of nature.
For WWF, The amendment presented does not try to support an extensive cattleBut to resume the systematic persecution of the wolf for purely political reasons. This serious attack on nature intentionally ignores scientific evidence about the fragile recovery of the species and the proven uselessness of killing wolves to reduce livestock damage.
‘It is outrageous and a serious irresponsibility that PNV and Junts are an ally with the PP and Vox To an unprotect one species such as necessary such as the wolf through the back door, in an act of scientific denial“Said the General Secretary of the NGO Spain, Juan Carlos del Olmo.
And he adds: “If the parliamentary groups approve this legal nonsense, they will dismantle years of progress in the protection of nature and they will endanger the Funds for coexistence between the wolf and extensive cattleLimbo leave for those who live with the kind.
The inclusion of the wolf in the list of wild species in a special protection regime (lesrpe) in 2021 was a decision supported by science and was implemented with all the guarantees that marks the legislation. It was based on the opinion of an independent scientific committee that He endorsed that protection for the fundamental ecological role that De Wolf plays in ecosystemsAfter a long administrative procedure that made a broad participation of civil society possible. Now the PP and the parties that support them are planning to dismantle that protection opaque, so that science and society are left behind a crucial decision for nature.
A ‘stagnant’ population
The NGO emphasizes that The population of the Wolf has been stagnating for ten years, with an evolution that is around 1 % per yearAccording to the data of the autonomous communities. The growth since 2012-2013, the last national census of the species, is only 8 % in Castilla y León, 3 % in Galicia (from 90 to 93 herds) and 13 % in Asturia (from 37 to 42 reproductive herds).
Psen per day Access to Levre, the populations of Lobo take place in an unfavorable state of preservationWith significant genetic problems of endogamy caused by its insulation and the ruthless human persecution until the second half of the last century.
‘The killing of wolves in an unfavorable state of preservation, such as those who are currently the Iberian populations of the species, is nonsense and illegal”, Said Juan Carlos del Olmo.
Remember that the protection of the wolf through admission to the Lesrpe has meant an unprecedented economic investment for coexistence with extensive cattle. There has never been so much public money available for farmers and cattle to apply preventive measures and to receive fair payments in the event of damage, thanks to the approval by the central government and the CCAA of the “Strategy for the Management and Preservation of the Wolf and its coexistence with the activities of the rural environment”.
The organization is considering this Not too justified amendment can get ahead with the voices of PNV and Junts: In the Basque Country, only two packages of wolves are shared with CCAA -neighbor, and in Catalonia the species is considered an “extinct reproductive” species.
For the NGO, political groups and administrations have to work in common solutions that go through adequate and effective maintenance plans of the species and a fixed dedication to damage the prevention. But there is a great lack of dedication and political will due to the autonomous communities, According to an analysis of the Wolf policy published this month by WWF.
In addition, They claim to tackle the real problems of extensive livestock farmingwho are independent of the presence of the wolf. The organization has increased solutions to maintain this activity with a relevant environmental and social role and to demand the development of a state strategy and to demand the associated regional plans.