Roughly translated by TWIN Observer
There will probably be no licensed wolf hunting in the winter under the Nature Conservation Agency. This is because no wolves have been translocated to Sweden, which the EU requires in order to hinder inbreeding.
This is despite the government’s former Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren, current agriculture minister Eskil Erlandsson said the cull would be increased and that the licensed hunting of wolves would resume winter 2013. But now it seems that this promise will not be kept.
If the EU is to allow hunting of wolves coming winter there should have been released some genetically important wolves to prevent inbreeding in the Scandinavian wolf population, to which the Environmental Protection Agency agrees.
“We feel blown away because of last year’s hunt.”
But it is not connected to the hunters who feel cheated in last winter wolf hunting which was stopped by the government because the EU was about to take Sweden to court. According to the EU it fought the hunt because it is against habitat regulation.
The upcoming winter both the environment and agriculture ministers promised licensed hunting of wolves, but the EU has now sent clear signals that at first there must be a genetic contribution to the wolves that currently are estimated at well over 300 individuals.