Roughly translated by TWIN Observer
The Wolf Symposium in Vålådalen has been held for 20 years and Hunters Association has participated in almost all of the. This is the end.
“The huggers can hug each other without annoying objections from us hunters,” writes Hunters Association Gunnar Gløersen on his blog.
The Hunters Association’s predator expert Gunnar Gløersen has attended 19 of the previous 20 occasions Wolf symposium organized but now he has grown tired. He believes that the symposium gained increasing bias in favor of the “right opinion”, thus the more predators.
“The Wolf issue has become so polarized the last years so we do not consider it worthwhile to engage in a dialogue at all. This matter is to be decided in court,” says Gunnar Gløersen to P4 Värmland.
The other day he announced to the organizers of the Wolf Symposium in Vålådalen that he will not attend this year. No one else from the Swedish Hunters Association will participate either.
Has wolf symposium had its day?
“As it stands today, it has outlived its usefulness. I think that more and more will come to realize that it’s pretty pointless to have a discussion when it’s just one side sitting and patting each other on the back. There must be a new forum,” says Gunnar Gløersen.
On his blog he writes:
“But now I see no longer any point to attend. The wolf symposium now appears to be almost completely free from user’s perspective. Huggers can hug each other without annoying objections from us hunters and other users.”
Gunnar Gløersen reacts strongly against conservation organizations and their speech about the importance of compromise. Gløersen calls it drivel which only works if the media does not analyze this enough.
“Traditional gatherings and groupings like the Wolf Symposium in Vålådalen do not work. They enhance contradictions,” writes Gunnar Gløersen.
Wolf symposium is arranged in Vålådalen March 10 to 12.