The spokesperson for Vox in the General Board of the Principality of Asturias, Carolina López, has demanded this Sunday a “radical change” in the policies aimed at “protecting” livestock farmers. At the same time, she accused the minister of Rural Environment and Agricultural Policy, Marcelino Marcos, and the PSOE of being “fully sold to desk ecologists who do not want to ensure the continuity of the primary sector.”
From Arriondas, where she attended the livestock protest convened in the town, the Vox deputy has said that livestock farmers “are no longer there for triumphalist messages” in the face of the “constant attacks by the wolf.” She also criticized that the regional government “looks the other way” while packs grow, the number of specimens increases, and the damage caused rises.
López explained that, in recent years, the livestock population has recorded “almost 4,000 head affected, both dead and brutally injured,” to which is added a volume of compensation that in the last year has reached “practically two million euros” and that, in her view, “do not actually cover the cost or the loss that the livestock farmer has.” She also warned that the species “is already reaching coastal and very populated areas.”
The Vox leader described the current wolf management plan as “improvisation” and criticized that it does not include an economic report or a real analysis of the impact on extensive livestock farming. As an example, she pointed to the existence of different criteria depending on the area, noting that “in areas where a thousand attacks have occurred it allows extracting eight wolves” while in others “with 400 attacks it allows extracting nine.”