After centuries of persecution and hunting , wildlife across Europe has assure a remarkable return . But as the number of bison , beaver and wild boar are steadily climb , so too are the number of predators . Wolves have been dispersing from Eastern Europe to the West in increasing numbers to the pleasure of conservation organization , but to the dismay of farmer . In reception to losings of livestock in the Alps , France has finally bowed to the pressing of the shepherds anddeployed a teamof Friedrich August Wolf hunter .
This all comes after a reported increase in the number of onslaught on stock in late yr , specially in the Alps region , as wolf have been increase in identification number and spreading from the border with Italy . With300of the animals thought to be now living in France , two have even been tell apart as far North as theoutskirts of Paris . consort to farmers , the predators were responsible for tight to 8,500 livestock decease in 2014 alone . Inone weekend , a exclusive wolf reportedly make the decease of 72 sheep , killing 10 of the animate being and tug a further 62 over a cliff sharpness .
The French government activity has been assay to polish relations between the sheepherder and the protected predator by paying compensation for any sheep killed , shelling out roughly€15 million($19 million ) in 2012 . But that has n’t been enough . One shepherdreckons that roughly 10 % of his flock has been make by wolves so far this yr , and that currently employed methods to protect them – from keeping Pyrenean mountain dog as guard to erecting galvanic fences – only are n’t working .
But France is not the first country to break EU police and hunt the returning wolves . Sweden re-start Friedrich August Wolf hunting in 2010 and 2011 and plan on start again in 2015 , but earlier this year the European Union state it isnow planningto take legal action against the hunt due to its breach of the European Union directive . The European Commission is concerned about Sweden trace the woman chaser when the universe is already in such a fragile state in the country . Only fourth dimension will tell if the French initiative is successful in cut stock deaths or whether it will confront its own legal challenge .
