EU member states should conduct targeted wolf hunts to protect livestock following the bloc’s decision to ease protections on the species, wolf expert Eckhard Fuhr told dpa. The European Union agreed in September to lower the protection status of wolves from strictly protected to protected, clearing the way for measures to regulate the growing population of the predator. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said at the time that in some parts of Europe, wolf pack numbers have “become a real danger for livestock and potentially also for humans,” encouraging the authorities to “tak…