Roughly translated by TWIN Observer
SOLLEFTEÅ / TT
The acclaimed and genetically valuable wolf female in the Junsele territory has cost the state nearly four million kronor(~ $635,000). Costs have increased steadily – both for the authorities and the Sami villages who needed to protect their herds from wolf attacks.
“We have never spent so much money on a single wolf,” says Ruona Burman, wildlife coordinator for the Environmental Protection Agency, in the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet