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EU backs plan to downgrade wolf protection status

EU member states voted to lower the protection status of wolves, allowing for relaxed hunting rules, which conservationists criticized.
The proposal to downgrade wolves from "strictly protected" to "protected" supported by the bloc's 27 nations was welcomed by the European Commission.
The vote sets the stage for the EU to push for changes to the Bern Convention at the next standing committee meeting in December.

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