Wolf hunt
Sweden’s illegal wolf hunt starts on January 2
Five entire wolf families, in total 30 wolves, are set to be killed. A licensed quota hunt of a “Strictly protected species”, which is not allowed according to EU law.…
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Sweden’s wolf population to be cut by more than half
On October 16, Sweden’s government announced its ambition to lower therequired minimum number of wolves in the country, from an already too low300 individuals, to 170. Experts say this will…
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Sweden aims at halving its wolf population
BREAKING NEWS: For almost 20 years the wolf was exterminated in Sweden. In 1983 it walked back in, slowly increasing in numbers. Now Sweden’s government wants to rapidly halve the…
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Sweden’s Wolves down by nearly 20%
The results from the 2023/24 survey were presented at SLU Grimsö on June 3, showing that the officially estimated number of wolves in Sweden was 375 during the period. In…
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Report dissuades from having 170 as the minimum number of wolves in Scandinavia
On Tuesday 9/4, researchers Phil Miller (IUCN SSC Conservation Planning Specialist Group) and Nicolas Dussex (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), presented their study on the Minimum Viable Population (MVP)…
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No protective hunt without preventive measures
Sweden’s government has commissioned its Environmental Protection Agency (Naturvårdsverket, SNV) to review the conditions for protective hunting of wolves. The Swedish Carnivore Association (Svenska Rovdjursföreningen, SRF) has submitted their response,…