A tale of two species (Spain)
Spain’s government has contrasting opinions on the soaring numbers of Iberian wolf and lynx
AS Madrid moves to reclassify the endangered status of the Iberian lynx, the Ministry of the Environment has given its consent to a cull that could lead to the extinction of the peninsula’s native wolf.
And the Olive Press can reveal that although the Iberian wolf has been granted “strict protection†status by the European Union (EU), Brussels is expected to back the move.This comes after numbers of the animal rose from 200 in 1970 to almost 3,000 in 2006 – and a dramatic increase in the number of attacks on livestock.
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