Brussels: The European Commission said yesterday that it wanted to change the protection status of wolves, allowing them to be hunted.
After bouncing back from near extinction, “the concentration of wolf packs in some European regions has become a real danger, especially for livestock,” commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said.
She lost her beloved elderly pony Dolly in September to a wolf who crept into its enclosure in northern Germany. Her commission is asking EU member countries to revise the protection status for wolves, taking it from “strictly protected” to just “protected”, which would authorise hunting under strict regulation. | AFP…
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