Overview

• The Galician High Court (TSXG) has provisionally halted the regional government’s 2024-25 wolf management plan that permits hunting, preventing the measure from taking effect through its July expiration.
• In its order, the court invoked the EU’s precautionary principle over concerns that authorized hunts could undermine the viability of local wolf populations.
• Judges flagged a lack of qualitative and quantitative data on livestock losses attributed to wolves, noting such damages are indemnifiable but unquantified.
• The injunction is temporary and does not prejudge the final ruling on the merits of WWF-ADENA’s challenge.
• An April Xunta resolution restored wolf hunting in Galicia after Brussels eased protections for wolves north of the Duero River.