The hunting emergency spreads throughout Spain: The national parks are infested

A few days ago, the new Government of Extremadura launched a legislative clash with the acting national Executive. The president of the region, María Guardiola, announced with great fanfare that, after years of prohibition, hunting would be allowed again in the Monfragüe National Park. He did so with the refusal of Teresa Ribera, but a few days after a measure was approved in Galicia that allows wild boar hunting without limits in 80% of the region until February 2024 and only a few months after a group of ranchers assaulted the Territorial Delegation of the Junta de Castilla y León in Salamanca. What do all these events have in common? A concept that is beginning to spread throughout the country and part of Europe: the hunting emergency. Without official data to support what is happening, nor a common strategy of action that focuses on this issue, in the Spanish countryside they have been looking, with increasing concern, for several years at some wild species with which they ...