Autonomous communities do not do their homework Around the coexistence between the wolf and extensive cattle nor to guarantee the preservation of this Unique kindAccording to a new one report.
He Iberian Wolf will be included in the List of wild species in Special Security Regime (Lestre) And therefore, Your legal situation will not change in SpainDespite the recently approved reduction in his protection status by the Bern Treaty.
The new regulations, which enter into force on Friday 7 March, will reduce its official protection in Europe from “strictly protected” to “protected”.
Although in recent decades it has been possible to recover without help, until its inclusion in 2021 in the List” The turns in the areas of the average and high mountain of the Northern Peninsula caused “a genetic bottleneck” of his populationhas insured the nature conservation coordinator of WWF Spain, Luis Suárez.
The Iberian Wolf “It is not a specific variety” of the European, but “A subpopulation” that has become different from the geographical isolationThe result of “enormous pressure in the middle of the last century.”
In Spain there are 297 Packs Wolves
According to the last National Census of 2013, In Spain there are 297 Packs WolvesFigures that WWF, according to the data that is subsequently collected at regional level, regards “stagnant”, so the environmental organization claims a new census.
Loose lobos In the Iberian Peninsula, Suárez adds, they have characteristic figures on their heads and front legs that “certainly respond to an adaptation to the environment” and They are slightly smaller than the Midden -European copies “For climatic reasons.”
In addition, a Spanish-Portuguese study detected one Dogs -DNA block on chromosome 2 of the Iberian wolfGenetic signature that has not been observed in another population to date and that may have influenced his ability to adapt to Humanized environments.
“The wolf is not a dangerous animal”he says, because «« «Refuse manAnd its effects on cattle, in general, “They can be checked with the presence of the same farmers or well -trained mastiffs and keep the animals in closed places at night“.
Castilla-La Mancha, Aragon and Andalusia, those who worse the ‘Wolf’
Andalusia, Aragon and Castilla-La Mancha They are the autonomous communities with a worse regional wolf protection policyAll with one «unsatisfactory»From its regulation. This is reflected in the report To coexistence or conflicts? Analysis of autonomous Wolven Protection Policy” Thursday presented by the WWF -Milieu organization.
The study notes that «They have to improve»Policy for The preservation of the Wolf Castilla y León, Asturias, Madrid, La Rioja, Cantabria, Vizcaya, Galicia and Álava. The only autonomous community that is “on the right track” In his autonomous policy for the preservation of the wolf according to the analysis It’s Catalonia.
For Luis Suárez, «Keep killing Wolves makes no sense“, Given that”We do not solve the problems, it only serves to worsen the social conflict«. That is why WWF claims that “the best way is to work not to reduce the wolf copies but damage.” “And that happens with prevention measures,” says Suárez.
The analysis analyzes the autonomous policy for the preservation of the wolf in terms of damage prevention, damage compensation; participation and transparency; and planning and conservation.
With the aim of the Iberian WolfThe environmental organization claims Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge «Promote better information and common state criteria on livestock damage; Guarantee the transfer of funds to the autonomous communities to form regularly and on time for their correct version, with greater traceability and transparency about their destination; Work together with him Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Unpleasant strengthen coexistence” promoting measures such as a National Mastiff network; y Determine a national wool table«.