Conservation: In wolf's clothing.
A recent study conducted by Jorge Echegaray and Carles Vilà at the Doñana Biological Station in Seville, Spain, has revealed that feral dogs are often the culprits behind damage blamed on wolves. In Spain, where wolves have been reintroduced, about $2.3 million a year is paid to farmers to compensa...
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 393; pp. 83 - 84 |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
November 21 2009
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