SE: Green light for wolf hunting in two of the five counties

Now underway are judicial turns in full swing. Environmental Protection Agency’s decision on licensed hunting in five counties is on appeal in all cases to the respective administrative law. All of these have been resolved with temporary rulings that hunting decisions could be inhibited – thus stopping the hunt until the final decision is taken.

“Does not affect”

But decisions about the inhibition was appealed in turn, and on Tuesday the appeal was decided in Sundsvall to repeal the inhibition of Dalarna and Gävleborg.

“If you shoot four or six or eight wolves, more or less, it does not affect the wolf population in Sweden,” says Anders Lind, court spokesperson in Sundsvall.The Hunters Association is pleased of course to the quick announcement.

“It shows that appeal understood the problem, and the need to take decisions on time so that there is an opportunity to implement what Parliament and the Environmental Protection Agency decided on,” says Torbjörn Lövbom, president of the Hunters Association predator avisors.

Cold shower for wolf friends

For hunting opponents the Administrative Court ruling was a cold shower.

“Just as relieved as I was over the administrative decisions, as concerned I am now,” says the SSNC president Johanna Sandahl.She points to the risk that the courts ultimately found that the hunt should not have taken place – but then wolves are already shot.