Roughly translated by TWIN Observer
The Environmental Protection Agency is considering to limit the wolf hunt in, among other things, Värmland County, after the licensed hunting has been appealed.
The regional decisions have been appealed to the Environmental Protection Agency. It is reported in SVT Varmland and Värmland Folkblad.
During the autumn, the county administrative boards of the five wolf counties of Dalarna, Gävleborg, Värmland, Västmanland and Örebro decided that a total of 46 wolves could be shot during the winter hunting. That decision has been appealed to the Environmental Protection Agency, which has now requested that the county administrative boards should prioritize the territory that is most important to hunt, something that can be interpreted as the Environmental Protection Agency to change the county administrative boards’ decisions. Such ranking is not what the county administrative boards can do.
“We do not have prospects to respond the Environmental Protection Agency’s request. The decision of the five governors took well founded, and I assume that in the end we must implement it,” says Governor Kenneth Johansson, who is chairman of the wolf counties’ consultation group to SVT.