The number of wolves has exceeded 20,000 in the EU, prompting an urgent need for regulation.
EU Commissioner for the Environment, Jessika Roswal, has been made aware of the situation which is creating problems with wolf packs that are a nuisance to local communities, agriculture and hunters.
This has also been acknowledged by the EU Commission.
‘The number has justified an adjustment of the legal protection status, and that was the reason for the commission’s proposal last year to adjust the wolf’s status’, says Jessika Roswall.
Last year, the wolf’s protection status was downgraded in the so-called Bern Convention. The wolf’s status went from “strictly protected” to “protected”.