Saône-et-Loire: The Minister of Agriculture "intervened directly" to have an injured wolf put down

Annie Genevard , the Minister of Agriculture, originally from Doubs, responds to an interview in Le Journal du dimanche (JDD) on May 4 and discusses the regulation of the wolf population. To the question "Are there other means of action for regulation?", she replies: "[…] Often, there is no other solution than culling. I am thinking in particular of lone wolves that have developed very aggressive behavior of predating herds. In Saône-et-Loire, we have one that caused a lot of damage. This wolf had been targeted and injured, but continued to prey on livestock, more than twenty times on the same farm. I intervened directly in this matter by...

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