In response to a reported increase in attacks on livestock, several Austrian regions have authorised the controversial killing of wolves.
Environmental groups say the move violates European law, which lists them as protected animals.
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After wolves swooped from the forest and savaged her lambs, Austrian sheep farmer Renate Pilz feels like giving up. Others, to the anger of conservationists, are reaching for their rifles.
"I lost two ewes and two lambs" to the wolf attack last year, the 55-year-old said at her farm in the village of Arbesbach.
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