While the lobjo is in one State of unfavorable preservation At national level, in accordance with the case law of national and European courts, Killing wolves is not a reasonable option.
In this context, WWF announces that They will bear a plan for justice that includes hunting or quotaA strategy that has also shown useless to reduce cattle attacks.
After the legislative maneuver in the Congress of representatives Unpleasant Remove the wolf from the list of wild species in a special protection regime (Lesrpe)Communities such as Cantabria and Asturia have announced their intention to approve plans, including killing up to 20 % of their population of Iberian wolves.
However, They complain that these actions do not meet European regulations, Because the fact that one gang sea pregnant -What is not strictly protected- Do not avoid the obligation to maintain its population in a favorable nature conservation statementsomething that It doesn’t happen in Spain.
The Court of Justice of the European Union (Tjue) has canceled the plan of Castilla Y León that the hunt for 339 wolves
This is determined by the courts on repeated occasions, and more recently in July 2024, when the Court of Justice of the European Union (Tjue) cancelled The plan of Castilla Y León that the 339 Wolves hunting Between 2019 and 2022 to North of the Duero River.
The sentence has established that «The wolf cannot be explained as a hunter species at regional level when his state of conservation at national level is unfavorable«.
According to the last population report by Spain to the European Union in 2019, and this year should be updated, Wolf populations in our country are in an “unfavorable” stateThis additional measures forces to guarantee its future viability. In his ruling of July 2024, derived from an attraction from the Acel Association, the TJUE indicated that “the purpose of these measures should be maintained or restored to the species in question in a favorable state of preservation,” and added that “if these measures include rules related to hunting, they are intended to be limited and not to out.”
We remember that, in order to bring the Iberian population of the wolf to a favorable nature conservation statement, Regional administrations must ensure both expansion to other areas and growth In his own geographical field: Something that is absolutely incompatible with the systematic and random persecution of the wolf who wants to recapture a CCAA.
The slow recovery of the Iberian wolf is very fragically the case of Portugal
In fact, show An alarming lack of progress in the past decadecon A marginal growth of only 1 % per year in the most important bubbless, as Galicia and Castilla y León. In the meantime, His condition has deteriorated in Portugalimmediately 23 % Reduction of the territory occupied by the species in the past two decades.
The Lobos population in Spain has not grown exponentially, as some administrations confirm. The reality is that the recovery of this jewel of the Iberian fauna has stagnated over the past decade, and its future is still not protected.
In reality, Death Wolves is not only illegal and incompatible with the recovery of the speciesbut also It is a useless strategy to reduce cattle attacks.
That’s why, We are taking a regional plan for the courts and the public prosecutor that violates and requires current regulations CCAA what they bet on Real solutions for coexistence.
According to a report that was recently published by WWF Spain, Autonomous administrations that suspend to support the measures of livestock farmsAnd in the existence of fair and effective compensation systems in the event of attacks.
We also asked of Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (Miteco) What The Autonomous Wolf Management Plans Resort that do not comply with European legislation, which studies the possible unconstitution of the changes approved in the congress last week and that the ex -officio begins Procedure to include the wolf in classIn line with the Scientific recommendations.