Roughly translated by TWIN Observer
The wolves who until three years ago lived on Bredfjäll outside Ljungskile have been killed by humans. P4 West’s nature expert Janne Uddén reports.
“There were eight animals hunting around Öresjö and the islands around there, and then they just went up in smoke. It seems anyone can figure out that they do not disappear by themselves, but they have been helped. It was getting sightings of wolves in general and so many wolves do not just disappear”, says Janne Uddén.
In plain language does that mean the wolves have been killed?
“Exactly, those who have seen the movie Tjuvjakt i Sverige – Vargkriget knows that there are sophisticated techniques for feeding wolves with nasty stuff that makes them pull away and a wolf who is terminally ill is not easy to find,” says Janne Uddén.
But the notion that wolves were killed by people is not shared by the County Board who believes that the wolves had died naturally. So says predators officer Nelly Grönberg.
“Our opinion is that there has been a natural degradation of the territory. In 2009, the she-wolf that lives on Bredfjäll has long been with a new male wolf. They had puppies 2009. In 2010 it there was a scabies infestation in the pack. We have visual observations on two animals of which one had a strong scabies infestation and this stuff is contagious after all. We have no evidence that any of these animals died, but it is not unusual for wolves suffer from sarcoptic mange and die. In retrospect, we have also been able to see that the territorial marking animal who is this female remains in the field,” says Nelly Grönberg.