Europe won over to the lobbies, wolves pay the price
March 6, 2025 will forever be a terrible day for biodiversity. Wolves have officially been downgraded in the Bern Convention, because Europe has submitted itself to lobbies with greedy and destructive wishes. But the fight for wolves and ecosystems has only just begun, and we will be, as we have always been, at the forefront of their defense.
A dark period for wolves and biodiversity as a whole…
March 6, 2025. That’s it, Europe went straight for disaster, biodiversity head first. Wolves have been downgraded in the Bern Convention. The European Commission had to wait until this date to propose its adaptation of the Habitats Directive accordingly. This will make them even more of a target for those who want them dead at any price.
Who has been rubbing their hands for weeks now, torpedoing years of wildlife protection efforts? Breeders, hunters and the public decision-makers under their thumb.
During an exchange between the Parliament and the Commission, MEP Valérie Deloge applauded the Commission’s decision and asserted the need to “reaffirm the primacy of agriculture and livestock farming over the ideology of rewilding, because without our breeders, there will be no more European food sovereignty.”
As for Lozère senator Guylène Pantel, she’s not ashamed to claim that “if one animal is slaughtered, that’s one less animal on the territory.”
Are these two lobbies fanatics not aware that, without wolves, there would be no viable ecosystems? They are ignoring science and the opinion of 86% of French people, who consider that these animals have their rightful place in nature.
… but the fight for the cubs goes on!
Downgrading is coming into force in the Bern Convention, and certainly very soon in the European Union, but our warnings have not gone unheeded: our joint request for the European wolf cubs before the European Court of Justice has been accepted.
We have long been ready for this long obstacle course and will not abandon these wonderful animals, thanks to a colossal inter-associative commitment!
In Europe, as in France, we are ready to take legal action whenever wolves are harmed: from their scientifically unfounded downgrading, to the relaxation of conditions for killing wolves, to shooting orders with no legal basis, the list goes on and on, but we are relentless in our fight against these cruel and unfounded decisions.
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