A total of thirteen communities, plus the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla, have agreed this Friday on a document in which they demand that the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge “immediately” convene a monographic Sectoral Environment Conference on the wolf, as well as comply with its obligation to send the six-year reports on the status of the species to the European Commission.
Those responsible for wolf management in seven communities met this morning in Santander to discuss the “irregular actions” committed by the Ministry in this matter. Specifically, the councilors of Cantabria, the Basque Country, Galicia, La Rioja, Castilla y León, Aragón and Madrid have attended, to whom they have joined in expressing their support for the document Andalusia, Murcia, Valencia, the Canary Islands, Extremadura, the Balearic Islands, Ceuta and Melilla.
All communities had been invited to the meeting and also the Minister of the Area, Sara Aagesen, who reported this morning that she would not attend.
The agreed document consists of three points in which it is also demanded that the funds established in the National Wolf Conservation and Management Strategy and which appear in the extended General State Budgets be transferred to the autonomous communities.
Furthermore, in response to the contentious-administrative appeal already presented by the Regional Government of Castilla y León against the “inactivity” of the Ministry, other autonomies – including Cantabria – have expressed their intention to appear. Likewise, they will submit a formal complaint to the European Commission for non-compliance with Community Law by the State.
