Roughly translated by TWIN Observer
Licensed hunting of wolves is a hot issue and the Swedish Predators Organization is formulating now an appeal to the administrative court in Lulea.
There are 340 wolves in Sweden, slightly fewer than in 2015. According to the County Administrative Board of Värmland, there are 110 of them right now in our county.
The County Administrative Board has now decided that there will be licensed hunting of wolves in January, a total of 24 wolves will be shot in four counties, of which 6 wolves in Värmland and six wolves in our county common territory with Orebro.
But Gunnar Glöersen predator specialist in charge of the Swedish Hunters Association stands firmly in their opinion that they should shoot twice as many wolves than what Värmland and Örebro were awarded:
“It costs a lot to have the wolf. We from the Hunting Confederation has said that we accept the wolf, but it must be done in such a way that injury claim solutions are limited, and not a small part of the country will bear the entire burden. If I were to have it, they should have a greater geographical spread.”
How do the wolves spread, then?
“You have to let the wolf to spread itself. One can not actively disseminate them,” says Gunnar Glöersen.
Torbjorn Nilsson, Chairman of the Swedish Society for Predators, says this:
“It will go in order to let the wolves is that it allows the increase in the number by propagation. So it would become a natural exchange around the Bothnian Bay. We believe that all human activities must take into account natural conditions, to include large predators such as wolves, bears and lynx.”