Throughout Europe there has been a trend towards more local and decentralised management of natural resources. Do these large guidelines seek to reverse this trend?
No. However, for wide-ranging species like large carnivores there is a need to ensure a larger scale coordinated framework within which the many local levels can operate. In other words we are encouraging both the central and the local where the central level sets some general coordinated frames and where the local level is free to find locally adapted solutions as long as they help reach the overall goals. We call this the principle of freedom-within-frames.
