This is a well written story Richard. Wolves hunting sheep is indeed a growing problem, which is placing the wolf under threat from farmers and politicians who want to please them. But, there are a lot of things governments can do to support farmers that don't involve culling and which they are failing to do.

I wrote about this last year if you are interested

https://gilpires97.medium.com/wolves-under-threat-in-europe-1a7c21f4e4cb