The Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Ángeles Vázquez, has held the central Government responsible for "compromising the viability" of livestock farms due to its stance on wolf protection.
Vázquez made these statements this Thursday during a visit to an extensive livestock farm in Vilalba, where she stressed that the sector "suffers the consequences of the insistence" of the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge in maintaining that the conservation status of the wolf is unfavorable.
According to the minister, official data "contradict the ideological stance" of the central Executive, as they show a "positive evolution" of the wolf in the country as a whole.
"Given these results, the Ministry has initiated a series of procedures not foreseen by regulations in delaying tactics with which it intends to discredit the technical and rigorous work done by the autonomous communities on this species," she stated.
Next, Vázquez detailed that Galicia submitted information and evaluations relating to 38 species, "which were carried out by the same technicians with the same criteria and procedures established by the European Union, but the central Government only questions the work on the wolf."
The head of Environment insisted that official data "contradict the Government's ideological stance," as they show a "positive evolution" of the species in Spain and, therefore, its conservation status should be considered "favorable."
In this context, she censured that the Ministry opened a public information procedure on the sexagenary report of the wolf, a decision she described as "unusual and unprecedented."
This document, which concluded that the conservation status of the species was favorable, was endorsed by the State Commission for Natural Heritage and Biodiversity in July 2025.
The minister emphasized that, after that approval, the Ministry opted "not to continue" with the ordinary and legally foreseen procedure, "unconvoking both the commission and the sectoral conference in which the document should have been analyzed."
Vázquez reiterated that the opening of a public information procedure is "completely exceptional and unprecedented."
In its opinion, with this action the central Government seeks to discredit the work of the autonomous communities, try to influence the outcome of the Sectoral Conference against an already agreed-upon report whose content it refuses to assume, and delay as much as possible the sending to the European Commission of the six-year wolf report 2019-2024.