Hungry Wolves Threaten Europe’s Climate Agenda

Protecting the predator is a part of the bloc’s 1 trillion-euro bid to make the continent climate neutral by 2050, but some farmers and politicians want to make it easier to hunt the animal attacking their flocks.

Thanks to the EU’s protection, within a few decades, wolves have gone from being considered vermin—hunted, poisoned and exterminated—to falling under the strictest protection for endangered species, their numbers recovering and packs expanding.

While that change has been largely considered positive by biodiversity champions, many farmers say the protections have gone too far. That controversy is now turning into a political issue. Many farmers, and some politicians, want to change EU policy to make it easier to shoot wolves.

The rise in attacks by wolves has helped fuel the largest agriculture protests in years, with farmers already furious at rising costs and more bureaucracy. In recent weeks, angry farmers blocked roads in every major European capital with tractors, sheep and cows.

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[gingercox]

Education alone will not be enough. The farmers must employ other methods

[ranjitkundu]

Magnificent, highly intelligent creatures. Who need sufficient space and game in the wild, in their territory ..to hunt & feed w/o affecting human populations and their livestock..

Technology, stocking game prey abundantly, controlling population size thru contraception, male & female.. etc may help keep potential problems under check/ control.

Animal Diseases can badly impact their numbers, Behaviour, plus the impact of other aggressive, powerful, competing predators in their Space.. Bears, mountain lions etc etc

Guard Dogs, Technology, drones, night vision surveillance devices..safe pens, and other defensive & even offensive automated livestock protection equipment..would tend to reduce such loss of livestock to wolves..

[maxlewandowski]

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