Researchers have tracked Naya
from eastern Germany into the Netherlands and now Flanders
Daniel Boffey in
Brussels
Mon 22 Jan
2018 16.54 GMTLast modified on Tue 23 Jan 2018 00.55 GMT
The first recorded wolf on
Belgian soil for at least 100 years has made her bloody mark.
Farmers in north-east Flanders
have been put on high alert after evidence emerged that Naya, a female
originally from eastern Germany that has been making a pioneering trek
across Europe,
had killed two sheep and injured a third near the Belgian town of Meerhout.
Naya’s arrival in Belgium completes the
return of the predator to every mainland country in Europe, turning back
decades of persecution, although not every community might welcome it.
“Any sheep farmers should know
[they are] in range of this wolf,” said Hugh Jansman, a researcher from the Wageningen
University and research centre, who has been following Naya’s westward trek
across hundreds of miles of European landscape.
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