Asturias Counts Fifty Wolf Packs in 2025

Why this is here: Livestock suffered 3,903 attacks from wolves last year in Asturias, prompting nearly 2 million euros in compensation to local farmers.

In Asturias, Spain, officials counted fifty wolf packs in 2025, five more than the last census. Forty-six of these packs are reproducing.

This represents an increase of roughly 11% in the wolf population. During the same period, thirteen wolves were found dead and thirty-one were killed through the region’s wolf control program.

Wolves attacked 3,903 livestock animals last year including over 1,000 cows and roughly 1,200 sheep. The regional government allocated 1.9 million euros to compensate farmers for these losses—the highest amount since records began in 1997. The control program, suspended by courts, will resume with adjustments to comply with a recent Supreme Court ruling.

The regional council is revising its wolf management plan after receiving over 90 public objections to the current draft. They aim to re-establish population control methods now that the wolf is no longer on the List of Protected Species. The existence of five additional wolf groups is still under evaluation.