Austria and Germany are following the same playbook: exploiting the EU's downgrading of the wolf's protected status, including it in hunting regulations, and selling the measure as "common sense" and "legal certainty." What is systematically ignored is the still fragile conservation status of the #wolf, the inadequate implementation of livestock protection measures, and the message such a law sends to society.

https://wildbeimwild.com/en/wolf-in-hunting-law-austria-rushes-ahead-germany-follows-suit/