The European Union proposal was adopted after farmers — who have been increasingly angered by attacks on livestock by packs of wolves — pushed to allow culls.

Wolves in Europe will be less protected from hunting from 2025, after a majority of European countries on Tuesday accepted a proposal to downgrade their status due to their growing number and their impact on agriculture and farming livestock.

European nations have approved plans to scale back the protection for wolves in a victory for farmers over environmentalists that has caught the political limelight in the European Union

The European Commission wants to change wolves' protected status, allowing nations to cull them.

The European Union has revised the conservation status of grey wolves, the BBC reports, downgrading their protection and allowing controlled culling. The decision moves grey wolves from Annex II (strictly protected) to Annex III (protected) under the Bern Convention,

Change in status under Bern Convention on nature protection could expose burgeoning wolf populations to culling and hunting for sport. View on euronews