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"Wolves are making a comeback across Europe. As their populations grow, 65,000
livestock are killed each year by wolves. Now, moves are underway to change the
protection status of the wolf in the European Union.
In this episode of
The Conversation Weekly, we speak to a social scientist
researching the best ways for humans and wolves to coexist.
Wolves used to be commonplace across Europe until they were eradicated from
large areas of the continent in the 19th century. But wolf populations began to
recover in the 1970s as they moved into tracts of unused farmland and stricter
conservation regulations were introduced.
A new analysis from the European Commission put the number of wolves in the EU
at 20,300 in 2023, up 81% from the estimated 11,193 living in the bloc in 2012.
Hanna Pettersson is a social scientist at the University of York in the UK
whose research focuses on how people react to living alongside wolves. She says
Europe has essentially “outsourced all the biodiversity conservation” to other
continents such as Africa or Asia."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
