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EU parliament adopts final decision to relax wolf protection, sparking extinction fears

  • EU lawmakers are set to approve downgrading wolves’ protection status from strictly protected to protected, effective since March 2025.
  • This change follows the Bern Convention's December 2024 agreement and reflects increased wolf populations causing more human and livestock encounters.
  • The revision, led by the conservative EPP and supported by centrist and socialist groups, allows hunting in rural and mountainous areas under strict criteria.
  • Wolves now number around 20,300 across Europe, attacking over 60,000 farm animals yearly, though no human casualties have occurred to date.
  • While supporters argue the measure aids coexistence and rural livelihoods, critics warn it risks undermining wolf recovery and denounce the move as politically motivated.
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▶️ The wolf is now a “protected” species in the European Union, and no longer a “strictly protected” species. MEPs in fact endorsed this downgrade on Thursday, the result of a previous similar vote by the member states of the Berne Convention. Defenders of biodiversity denounce this change which, in France, should however not change much. - Why did MEPs change the level of protection of wolves (Environment).

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ORF.at News broke the news in Vienna, Austria on Tuesday, May 6, 2025.
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