The Administrative Court has suspended (inhibited) licensed hunting of 153 lynx in all 14 counties in the administrative areas pending legal review. Inhibition is a temporary suspension so that the…
WolfWatch Europe is a new initiative launched by Green Impact in response to the recent EU decision to downgrade the protection status of the wolf. It serves as an information…
Today, the Administrative Court in Luleå announced that all licensed wolf hunts in 2026 have been cancelled. The Swedish Predator Association, together with the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, Jaktkritikerna…
Sweden has been reprimanded by the EU for its report on the favourable conservation status of wolves, with the EU questioning whether the decision has a scientific basis. In a…
When the swedish licensed bear hunt for 2025 formally ended on 15 October, 461 of a maximum of 465 bears had been killed. In the county of Värmland, where the quota was three bears, with a maximum of one female, the hunt was suspended on the first day because the first bear shot was a female. In the county of Dalarna, two bears remained when the hunt was cancelled, and in Gävleborg, two bears too many were shot. According to the county administrative board, this was due to an administrative error combined with a high hunting pace.
The swedish government is not skimping on funds when it comes to reducing the wolf population to a record low and scientifically questionable number of only 170 individuals. Over the next three years, more than 338 million Swedish kronor will be spent on minimising the wolf population. In other respects, however, the government is stingy with investments in nature and the environment. The environmental budget has been cut by four billion since the government took office in 2022, and the reduction is even greater in practice when inflation is taken into account.