“Wolf better protect less and thus less nuisance”

“That one wolf with us is of course a stray, a pack with us in the short term is really unthinkable,” says European parliament member Tom Vandenkdelaere from Roeselare.

“But I do refer to the debate that is raging here in the European Parliament about the protection status of the wolf. The animal is one of the best protected in Europe. We should perhaps be able to think about that protection status. We have to look at the local level at what the effect of that wolf is and how many wolves live together at a local level, as we see the larger numbers in Limburg, for example, and what the nuisance caused by that wolf is at a local level. wolf, at that moment I think we should really dare to talk about that protection status.”