Prosecuted and almost extinguished in Spain, The Iberian wolf has succeeded in recovering and expanding, which generates controversy between farmers, environmental activists and institutions. While farmers denounce attacks on cattle, environmental activists defend their role in the ecological balance.
Weld Autonomous communities of Cantabria, Galicia and Asturia are those who have Wolf the Wolf ProtectionEven more that the EU has given them ‘free stone’ to hunt them, with the excuse that extensive cattle must be protected.
The problem is that The ‘freedoms’ given to hunters, in some places with a preservation of the number of dams and at their own discretion, do not have the least scientific basisSo environmental activists are afraid that the situation of the Canis Lupusare seriously influenced.
Again the wolf in danger
The coordinator of Alianza Verde, Juantxo López de Uracge, has promoted an initiative by the hand of Podemos in the European Parliament, for the Intervention of the European Commission before the plans of Asturia, Cantabria and Galicia to hunt wolves.
Specifically 53 will be hunted in Asturia and another 41 in Cantabria (between 15% and 20% of the estimated population). For his part, Galicia has been on Wolfjacht since 14 April.
This action indicates from the political parties in their short, derived from the decision to extract to the lobjo Of the lessons it is contrary to the judgment of the Tjue (judgment of the Court of Justice in the case C-436/22). By the same The wolf cannot be explained as a hunter species at regional level when his state of conservation at national level is unfavorable.
Nor can it be explained as such If you do not enjoy rigorous protection in the region that is being treated according to the guideline on HabitatsSince species management measures, such as hunting, must at least have the maintenance or repair of such species in favorable nature conservation.
That is why they ask to clarify by a question laid down in the European Parliament, as the The European Commission is of the opinion that the decision of the autonomous communities of Galicia, Asturia and Cantabria de Hunt Lobos has been adapted to community law.
Para Juantxo López de Uralde, «El Process For a species that is included in class is complex. Studies must have been carried out by a scientific committee, which must submit a report to Miteco And this in turn of the autonomous communities. It is, the less doubtful, that this can be reversed in the way it was applied by the popular party, with an amendment in the Senate, on a law outside the Natural Heritage Act, which generates legal uncertainty ».