The Iberian Wolf Is Listed as "Vulnerable" in the National Red List of Mammals
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The Iberian wolf (Canis lupus) is listed as Vulnerable in the update of the IUCN National Red List of Mammals in Spain, according to an extinction risk assessment published this week by the Iberian Society for the Conservation and Study of Mammals (SECEM). The information, released yesterday by EFE Verde, indicates that the SECEM, together with researchers, managers and technicians of Spanish and Portuguese entities, warns that the long-term via…
WWF warns justice will give reason to the wolf with a high cost for the species, but that recognition will come late and with consequences difficult to reverse, according to biologist Luis Suárez, who points directly to the politicization of the debate as the main factor that has distorted the management of this key predator. A year after its departure from the list of protected species, the Iberian wolf has become more than an animal: it is the…
Exactly one year ago, on March 20, 2025, the Iberian wolf (Canis lupus signatus) was left out of the Lespre, the list of protected species with which the central government tried to give him full protection from hunting. It was twelve months of controversy, headlines, political, technical and tavern debates and even judicial decisions, with Supreme Court rulings annulling the extractions (hunting) of specimens authorized by some communities of t…
The wolf (Canis lupus) has been included in the Red List of National Mammals of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in the condition of "vulnerable" because the number of adult individuals estimated to exist in the country does not allow to ensure the viability of the species in the long term. The assessment of the risk of extinction of all species of terrestrial mammals in Spain, the first since 2007, has been coordina…
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