Roughly translated by TWIN Observer
STOCKHOLM / TT
For the fourth time the wolf bitch in Junsele is moved. Despite the millions of kronor cost, the EPA has no choice but to continue to move it. To shoot the wolf is not an option, since decisions on culling were appealed and culling was refused.
“It has never happened before that the same wolf is moved so many times,” says Ruona Burman, wildlife coordinator for the Environmental Protection Agency.
As long as there is a government mandate to follow the Environmental Protection Agency is to continue to move the wolf female. According to the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet the estimate in February had the female wolf moving cost to society is nearly four million kronor.
The first time she-wolf was moved to central Sweden, she was taken to Dalarna County, the second time to the county of Jämtland and then to Västernorrland.
“She ran to the east and west before. It may be that she turns back north, but it might as well be an area that is not as worrisome for the reindeer,” says Ruona Burman.
The serious damage wolves caused by destroying reindeer and splitting herds led the Environmental Protection Agency decided to cull twice but the decision was appealed. According to the agency the she-wolf is affected negatively by being moved so often.
“There is always a risk with anesthesia and a strain on the wolf by changing its environment.”