From the group Green Alliance The national government is being asked to put pressure on Spain to ensure that the protection the wolf currently enjoys in the European Union is not reduced. would endanger the species again.
The coordinator of the environmental party, Juantxo López de Uralde, has submitted a request to Congress to the Spanish government to put pressure on the upcoming decision on the status of the wolf in the European Union.
In a letter registered with Podemos in the House of Representatives, López de Uralde regrets that “since December 2023, the President of the European Commission, Ursula Von Der Leyen, has presented a proposal to the Member States to lower the protection status of the wolf in the Berne Convention, The pressure to implement this reduction has not stopped”.
The wolf’s protection is not affected
Las Community negotiations over the wolf’s future continuethe last took place on September 11 in the Environment Working Group of the Council of the European Union. According to information published in the media, political pressure has been put on Member States to accept the European Commission’s proposal, which does not follow scientific but political criteria.
The next meeting will take place on Wednesday September 25 and if there is a majority in favor of a change in the conservation status of wolvesthe decision would be adopted at the Council meeting on the 26th. López de Uralde He has already written a letter to the president Van der Leyenbefore the European elections, which expressly calls for the protection of the lobo, because “Europe cannot do this in this shameful way global leadership in conservation”.
Therefore, because the pressure not only has not disappeared, but seem to be increasing against the wolffrom the environmental group they want Spain to stay in his country favorable position compared to the current protection status and that it also plays a mediating role, so that the other countries in the Council avoid a change in this.
“It is striking that an institution is considered diligent in the conservation of the environmentlends itself to populism so far. With this he only wants to justify another initiative against the EU lobo clearly alien to scientific knowledge,” criticized López de Uralde.
It took a lot of fighting to achieve the protection status that the wolf has currently in the European Union. Allowing this to be reduced based on purely political criteria is inexcusable negligence, to say the least.