Spanish parliament vote on cutting food waste will end ban on wolf hunting

An Iberian wolf. The coalition behind the successful amendment says wolves kill 14,000 sheep and cattle a year, creating 4m kilograms of waste meat. Photograph: Vincent West/Reuters

The Spanish parliament has voted through a measure that will in effect lift a ban on hunting wolves that was imposed in 2021.

A coalition led by the conservative People’s party, with the support of the far-right Vox party and Basque and Catalan nationalists, added an amendment to a law aimed at reducing Spain’s estimated 1.2bn kilograms of food waste.