Roughly translated by TWIN Observer
42 percent of Värmlanders want the population to be reduced, while 31 percent think the number is fine as it is. These are results of a new survey made by Novus, commissioned by Swedish Radio.
“What I can decipher is that both those who want to reduce the strain and those that we have strain at the level that is now like to have licensed hunting of wolves.”
Four years ago, a similar survey and then found 45 percent of the wolf population was at a reasonable level, 29 per cent thought it should be fewer wolves.
Maria Falkevik interprets that the gap in the polls is because there are more wolves today. Where people have wolves close to where they live, usually resistance against wolves is bigger.
“We are just beginning with this year’s inventory and it shows that half of Swedish wolves are in or just close around Värmland,” says Maria Falkevik.
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About the survey
– The survey was conducted with through web interviews in Novus Sweden panel. Novus Sweden panel is randomly recruited and nationally representative in terms of age, gender and region in the age range 18-79 years, about Sweden Panel and implementation end of the report.
-A total of 11,475 interviews with the Swedish population 18-79 years during the period 25 April to 13 May 2014. Of these, 504 interviews with people living in the county of Värmland.