The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) confirmed the validity of Austria’s ban on wolf hunting in a ruling handed down on Thursday 11 July (Case C-601/22).
In the main case, WWF Österreich and other animal protection organisations challenged a temporary authorisation to kill a wolf that had killed around 20 sheep in the state of Tyrol.
As Austria is bound by the European Habitats Directive of 1992 and the Bern Convention on the conservation of wild flora and fauna, which...