122 sheep die from being crowded due to panic over the presence of wild animals in Valencia

A farmer from Aras de los Olmos (Valencia) suffered the death of 122 sheep over the Christmas holidays, which drowned after piling up due to a panic attack caused by the presence of wild animals. Antonio Miguel Álvaro, a member of the board of the Valencian Association of Farmers (AVA-Asaja), who had already suffered five attacks by wolves or wild dogs in the last two years, had a premonition that an incident of this magnitude would occur. "Either we control the overpopulation of wildlife, including the multiplication and arrival of the wolf in the Valencian Community, or we will lose our livestock, with the negative effects that this entails for the economic, social, and environmental sustainability of the rural environment," he has warned. When the farmer arrived at one of his pens in Aras de los Olmos, in the Valencian region of Los Serranos, close to Aragón and Castilla-La Mancha, he found a desolate scene: out of the 480 sheep he had, 122 of them were lifeless in the yard, ...