Wolves chasing an Iberian wild goat

--- English --- Spain is one of the last remaining refuges of the European wolf . The Iberian wolf population is slowly recovering from its 1970 low of 400-500 odd individuals with current (2003) figures estimated at as many as 2,000-2,500, almost 30% of European wolf numbers outside the ex-USSR. Until the early 1970s the wolf was officially’ considered as a pest in Spain, and the government paid out bounties for dead wolves and distributed strychnine to landowners and peasants. The lobero or wolf-hunter wa