Roughly translated by TWIN Observer
The EPA has made a new decision to surrender the right to decide on preventive hunting of bear, wolf and lynx to the county administrative boards.
The decision taken is a step in the regionalised predator management the Riksdag decided in December 2013.
Last year the EPA gave the authority to make decisions on culling to the provincial government. The decision is effective on 30 June 2015.
“It has worked well and this year we will make a decision regarding the December 31, 2016 effective date, says Hanna Dittrich Söderman , administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency in a press release.
It is EPA’s responsibility to follow up the protection hunt to see if the hunt affects or impedes favorable conservation status for the predators. If this is a threat the Environmental Protection Agency has the possibility to revoke it.
The who need a cull makes an application for protective hunting to the provincial government in their county which decides on the possible culling by current legislation for protective hunt. When the provincial government makes decisions about culling it is the Environmental Protection Agency that hears any appeal.