Good information is that Polish wolves will be safe because they are protected by national law. However, the provisions were adopted at the EU level, which are the next step to shoot wolves in Europe. Their protective status was reduced – during the Polish Presidency and without Polish opposition.
Most European Union countries looked at the wolf with a wolf. There is consent to the transfer of a wolf from a group of species strictly protected to protected.
– It was a response to social demand, namely very numerous cases of wolf attacks on inventory, but recently also events with people – indicates Miłosz Kościelniak -Marszał from the Institute of Environmental Analysis.
This – according to naturalists – fake news, because wolves avoid people by nature. – What was done in the European Commission is rather on the dictation of hunters and farmers, not a substantive discussion – comments Radosław Ślusarczyk from the studio for all beings.
– This is a dangerous precedent, because it puts in question further protection of large predators in Europe – indicates Marek Józefiak from Greenpeace Polska.
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According to experts, knowledge lost to politics, to the Lobby in the Promoter. The bans of killing, disturbing wolves and the destruction of the territories of their existence and reproduction will cease to apply throughout the European Union. You will not have to strictly report killing every piece.
– You can hang these trophies on the wall and you can remove a competitor in the fishery – says prof. Sabina Pierużek-Nowak, Vice-President of the State Council of Nature Conservation.
– Not in Poland – assures the Ministry of Climate and the Environment. In Polish law, strict protection of the wolf applies and this is not expected to change.
Over 70 percent of Poles are too close to the species protection
In the vote on the fate of Wolf, Poland abstained, although – according to statistics – over 70 percent of Poles are in favor of strict protection of this species.
– We will not comment on the sovereign decisions of other countries, Poland yesterday clearly marked its neutral position in voting, just like Spain or Belgium – indicates Mikołaj Dorożała, deputy minister of climate and environment, main nature conservator.
The appeals to Poland, which exercises the presidency in the Council of the European Union, did not help, and not allowed to vote in this matter, at least until the complaints of the proposed change, submitted by scientists and natural organizations to the Court of Justice of the European Union.
The scientific evidence did not help that the wolf, called the forest guard, helps in forest management because it regulates ungulate animal populations, eliminating weak and sick. It is true that he is also an opportunist. When a man gives him an unsecured herd, for example sheep, he will gladly benefit, although you can protect himself from it.
– For example, we, as the WFF Polska Foundation, are distributing electric fencing to farmers and agriculturalists – indicates Dariusz Gatkowski from the foundation.
The Polish Hunting Association refused to comment on this matter. Now everything in the hands of the CJEU and the European Ombudsman, who also examines the compliance of the decision to reduce the classification of the protection of the wolf with EU law.
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