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Anger over move to cull wolves

A plan to hunt and shoot up to 100 wolves in the mountains of northern Spain has angered environmentalists who say the culling is an unnecessary sop to farmers who claim livestock are under attack.

The plan comes as hill farmers in parts of the northern province of Leon complain that the wolves’ population growth is higher than that for humans. Some mayors claim wildlife is given a higher priority than humans in the rugged countryside along the Cordillera Cantabrica chain of mountains. “The wolf gains where man gives way,” the Diario de Leon newspaper said. The area around the Leonese town of Riano has lost almost two-thirds of its population over several decades. It now has 17 packs of wolves.

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