By Adam Easton BBC News, Warsaw
7 June 2019
Polish agriculture minister Jan Krzysztof Ardanowski has provoked widespread incredulity and criticism in Poland after he proposed removing legal protection for European bison and beaver and adding them to a list of "edible animals".
During an agriculture conference at the Polish parliament late last month, Mr Ardanowski spoke about the need to regulate beaver numbers due to the damage he said they cause to agricultural land. He lamented that even though local authorities grant permission to kill thousands of beavers each year there's very little demand from hunters to hunt them.
In Poland, unlike many European countries, beavers are only partially protected and may be killed between October and March under certain circumstances. The hunter is not allowed to eat the dead animal.
"I will decide to recognise beaver and bison as edible animals," he said, adding that beaver tail was an aphrodisiac. "It may turn out that the beaver problem will end soon," he added.
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