Illustration of a gray wolf. - Henry AUSLOOS / SIPA

According to the wolf defense association Ferus, a wolf was killed in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence on Monday. It is the first animal slaughtered this year under authorization from the public authorities.

Five new "permanent presence areas" (ZPP) of the wolf have been detected in France, mainly in the Southeast, said on Monday the French Office for Biodiversity (OFB).

"The French state continues to do anything"

The last result of the winter report, published last June, indeed reported a sharp increase in the wolf population, reaching 530 adults estimated in France against 430 a year earlier. A figure well beyond the threshold of 500 allowing to "resist the risk of extinction" and which led to an increase in the number of animals that can be slaughtered (100 in 2019).

In a press release, the Ferrus association believes that "the French state continues to do anything" with the wolf, "classified as vulnerable on the red list of endangered species in France".

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