Roughly translated by TWIN Observer
The EPA has now decided on how many predators there ought to be in Sweden. To maintain a favorable conservation status, there is now a national minimum which says that there should be 270 wolves.
Today there are about 400 wolves in the country and the number of bears is estimated to be about 3, 000.
Reference values for the predators at the national level:
Bear: 1400
Wolf: 270
Wolverine: 600
Lynx: 870
When reference values are now determined the intervals disappear which parliament had listed.
“Predator groups(packs) need margins to avoid losing favorable conservation status. Therefore, we need to have more predators than the reference value. You can compare benchmarks with a warning. If the number of predators approaching the reference value, the species is threatened. We do not have the control of this may have consequences which may even be difficult to cull” says Maria Agren , director general of the Environmental Protection Agency.
The EPA writes in a press release that several things must be in place before you can determine if it is possible to conduct a population-regulating hunting.
“Setting the reference value is a part of this work and in the near future, an update of the management plan is to be readied for wolves”
-Environmental Protection Agency