Spain: The Basque Government Management Plan encourages the expansion of wolves and abandons extensive livestock farming

Published 2024년 9월 20일

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The Basque Country's Official Gazette has published a wolf management plan, which has been criticized by agricultural unions EHNE and ENBA for allegedly ignoring the needs of extensive livestock farming and focusing on wolf conservation. The unions argue that the plan's measures, such as favoring wolf population growth and territorial expansion, do not consider the sector's financial losses and the potential harm to mountain pastures. They also question the plan's budget allocations and its lack of serious measures to prevent wolf-livestock conflicts. Additionally, they suggest culling problematic wolves and advocating for wolf removal from the LESPRE list, which they believe is necessary for the survival of the livestock sector.

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Last Wednesday, the Official Gazette of the Basque Country (BOPV) published the Resolution by which the wolf management plan in the Autonomous Community is submitted for public information. The Basque agricultural and livestock unions EHNE and ENBA consider that this plan once again abandons extensive livestock farming, avoiding addressing the underlying problem and establishing structural measures to support this sector, the ultimate consequences of which put at risk both the entire livestock and cheese sector, based on latxa sheep, cattle, horses and goats, as well as the habitats of mountain pastures, which European regulations order to preserve and promote. It is shocking that, after numerous meetings with the previous government teams and the contributions made by the entities of the primary sector, these have not been taken into account, the organizations lament. Analysing the document presented, one of the most serious aspects is the intention of the Plan to favour both the ...

Source: Agrodigital