El País reports that new Mastiff dogs are being trained in Barcelona as part of an initiative designed to stop a new threat of wolves which is affecting Catalan farmers.
Man got rid of all wolves in Cataluña a century ago, but now the animal is bank and killing stock just 40 kilometres from Barcelona. The wild wolves originate in Italy, and it’s taken them just 20 years to cross the Alps and France to reach Spain, arriving in the Catalan Pyrenees ten years ago.
Three different individuals have now been tracked in the area of Sierra del Cadí, but despite that some Mayors still say the wolves are just legend, worried about the state of the second home market in the area. Experts consider however that the wolves will have trouble in expanding further, with only one female located among the 13 animals in Spain.
There are, of course, other areas in the NW and centre of the country where there are large populations of the Iberian Wolf.
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