On Wednesday 25 September, the Member States’ ambassadors to the EU (Coreper) backed a proposal made by the European Commission in December 2023 to lower the international protection status of wolves in Europe from “strictly protected” to “protected” (see EUROPE B13318A6).
Last December, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, declared that “the concentration of wolf packs in some European regions has become a real danger, especially for...