Sheep farmers in Drenthe threaten to take the law into their own hands against the wolf and to hunt the animal. At a meeting on Saturday, they expressed their dissatisfaction with the wolf policy in the Netherlands – and Drenthe in particular.
,,We have been talking about it for more than a year, but have not made any progress yet”, argued Lambert Pijl from Hijken, who has about 2000 sheep. “Farmers bring weapons into their homes to hunt the wolf themselves.” The wolf has a protected status in Europe.
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