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European biodiversity is constantly changing. While some species disappear from the continent, others arrive in the form of invasive exotic species. There are also those that return to the wild areas of the continent thanks, at least in part, to the efforts placed in their recovery.
However, these efforts are not always welcome throughout the world. The return of some animals, and conservation policies that try to protect them from hunting and other threats have been a source of controversies that resurface periodically in the media.
We have a recent example last summer, when the Court of Justice of the European Union (TJUE) was pronounced twice against lobos hunting. The first It was after a decision of the government of the federated state of Tyrol; the second, for Back a Castellanoleonese rule. The wolf’s hunt is still vetoed in Europe while its state of conservation is unfavorable.
2025 could see this change in it status of the wolf. A few months ago, the committee responsible for supervising the Berma Agreement accepted the proposal for the change in criteria. This may imply that in the coming weeks we see changes.
Like the wolf, the bear has also starred controversially for its conservation. Recent estimates about the population of brown bears in the Cantabrian mountain range speak of about 400 copiesan increase with respect to populations three decades ago where the estimate placed the number of copies Below 100.
Again, the return of this animal to the Spanish mountains has generated certain risks. Problems that can affect both people as To the bears themselves.
Perhaps we can also find examples of less controversial reintroductions, such as that of the Iberian lynx. Since the 90s, the native feline has been leaving the situation that almost led to extinction. The lynx are predators and There are no lack of cases in which these hunters have chosen farm animals like their prey.
Problems of this type are not even limited to large or small predators. Even the proliferation of rabbits has been seen with alarm from part of the agricultural sector, proof that the relationship between humans and natural environment is not always easy.
And what do we do?
Find ways to manage coexistence between carnivores (Carnivorathe diverse taxonomic group that includes mammals such as wolves and bears, but also seals, hyenas and felines) has been the issue of a recent study prepared by a European group of researchers and Posted in the magazine People and Nature.
The study deals with how to address interactions, how to plan and organize the efforts of local communities towards coexistence with these animals. To do this, it emphasizes the role of local communities when guiding how this relationship should be, communities whose forms of knowledge “are too overlooked and marginalized.” They attract attention, yes, about an important detail, which people are really part of these “local communities.”
“This research is especially important in the pastoral areas of Europe, where populations of great carnivores such as the wolves who is ‘local’ here? What constitutes the ‘local knowledge’? And what can this knowledge contribute to the management of carnivores? ” explained in a press release Hanna Pettersson, co -author of the study.
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New research has been published in the days prior to the United Nations Biodiversity Conference held between today and Thursday 27 in Rome. This is precisely the debate forum in which issues such as this may be debated by the international community, not only at European level.
In the face of the conference and the search for new solutions to coexistence between humans and carnivores, the team responsible for the study proposes an approach based on the conservation of spaces. To do this, it suggests the investment in “local practitioners networks” in charge of coordinating this local knowledge in the production of “strategies adapted for coexistence”.
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