Galician justice has taken a step forward and for now and in a precautionary measure has left in tension lA resolution adopted by the Xunta de Galicia in which the wolf hunt is reactivated in the 2024/2025 season.
The argument of the Superior Court of Xustiza de Galicia (TSXG) is that “It can influence the viability of populations.”
In this way he explains in his car that the resolution management measures want to “prevent and relieve” the damage to cattle, but nevertheless emphasizes that “no information is offered or qualitative or quantitative” About this damage and that, although “they are not reversible, they are compensating.”
Justice paralyzes the management regime of the Wolf of the Xunta de Galicia
The Superior Court of Xustiza de Galicia (TSXG) has the resolution of the Xunta de Galicia That the wolf hunt in the 2024/2025 season, insight into that “this can influence the viability of the populations.”
The Chamber, which has applied the principle of environmental precautions, has requested access to the precautionary measure by WWF-ADEN “Damage verified of this kind.”
The High Galician court explains in the order that the measures of Wolf management The resolution wants to “prevent and relieve” the damage to cattle. However, it emphasizes that “no qualitative or quantitative information is offered” about this damage and that, although “they are not reversible, they are compensable.”
Therefore, when weighing between the protection of the viability of the populations of Wolf and that damage to cattle, the court applied the principle of environmental precautionary measures and it approved the resolution to paralyze the resolution to a precautionary measures.
To “know the State of preservation” of the population of Wolf north of the Duero, the House refers to a report from the European Commission published in 2024, which “represents a setback in the total population ».
It also goes to the data of the Iberian Wolf people in Galicia 2021-2022, drawn up by the Xunta, in which it is noted that “the increase, limited, Van Herdas takes place in most shared areas”, with Castilla y León, Asturias or Portugal.
The remaining increases, except in the Lugo area, with three packages, are not “significant”, he adds. The magistrates warn that the precautionary incident “You cannot anticipate the meaning of the final resolution of the court case in what you treat at the bottom of the debate.”
They also remember that, according to the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union, “the precautionary principle is imposed both in the area involved in the resolution and in the extensive evaluation, which integrates into border areas, but are beneficial to be the state of the population in both scenarios and not just in one of them.”
And they are adding that right now, There are “consistent indications” that there is an “unfavorable assessment with regard to the state of population.”
The resolution that paralyzes the TSXG only applies to the hunting season 2024/2025, which ends on July 31. The 2025/2026 season is regulated in another subsequent resolution of the Xunta, of 10 April, of 10 April, who has no influence on this decision of the magistrates.
The Iberian Wolf was included in the list of wild species in a special security regime (Lestre), but an amendment of the PP to the food waste law, supported by Vox, Junks and the PNV, the population retired north of the Duero last March. EFE / ECOTICIA.COM