The community vote
The EU Council yesterday voted to downgrade the species canis lupus from 'strictly protected' to 'protected'. Flavio Tosi, MEP for Forza Italia, member of the Environment Commission (ENVI) in Brussels, and very attentive to the issue and also to the EU Council's agenda on the subject, explains that today's vote "opens up new and important scenarios that are more favorable to the protection of our breeders and therefore to the effective wolf contrast”. For the first time “the EU has decided to modify the Habitats Directive, which was a bit of a Holy Grail for a certain European ideological and environmentalist vision”.
Habitat restoration in Europe
FACE commented: “Today’s successful vote to change the status of the wolf from “strictly protected” to “protected” under the Bern Convention is a triple victory. A victory for the 1992 Habitats Directive, which aims to restore habitats and species in Europe. The wolf, almost extinct in Western Europe, has regained a widespread presence across Europe. The Habitats Directive can now be better seen as a functional legal text that can accommodate conservation success stories. A victory for the functioning of institutions that know how to implement good policy decisions when needed. A victory for the wolf population, which is experiencing an unprecedented expansion in Europe (81% growth in 10 years). Coexistence with humans is increasingly widespread, as are the conflicts related to it”.
December's proposals
Here is the comment of the MEP of the League, Anna Maria Cisint: "In Brussels, a vote was held on the European Commission's proposal to downgrade the wolf species and the session ended with the approval expressed by the majority of EU countries in favor, including Italy and Germany; the next, decisive step will concern the modification of the Bern Convention, for which the secretariat will discuss the proposal in December. Good news for all those farmers who continue to suffer attacks and huge losses of their livestock".
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