MEPs seek protection for Iberian Wolf
Friday, January 31, 2014 @ 3:59 PM
A CALL for a native Spanish and Portuguese breed of wolf to be given a special protection order has reached the European Commission.
The Iberian Wolf is thought to be in danger of extinction, but exact population numbers are not known.
A Spain-wide campaign to 'save the Iberian Wolf' has led to 200,000 signatures being gathered on a petition set up by the conservation organisation Marley Wolf and presented to the European Parliament by the environmental pressure group Equo.
Six MEPs from the European Green Party have written to the Commission calling for a census of the species to be carried out and kept up to date, and for an automatic compensation system to be set up for farmers where their livestock were killed by wolves.
They believe the Iberian Wolf could even have a positive economic impact on 'deprived' rural areas to which they are native, since they could 'liven up' breaks in the country.
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