Sweden purifies the forest wolf

About 10,000 hunters in Sweden participated in the campaign to shoot wild wolves, after parliament said their numbers exceeded the allowed level.

BBC said, the campaign began to be conducted from January 2 and lasted until January 15. The number of wolves that hunters are allowed to shoot is 27. According to national radio, more than half of the 27 children died on the first day.

The wolf had almost gone extinct because of the hunting situation in southern Scandinavia until the hunting ban was enacted in the 1970s. Sweden and Norway have cooperated to develop the number of wolves in the vertical forests. border of the two countries. When Norway launched a wolf slaughter campaign in 2001 because it thought its number exceeded the limit, Sweden protested.

Recently the Swedish parliament has said that the number of wolves in this country should remain at 210 individuals. Michael Schneider, an official of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, said that the number of wolves at the beginning of last year remained at 210 individuals, but since then more than 20 pairs of wolves have given birth to their numbers. exceeded the reasonable level.

"We have to destroy the increased wolf population to maintain their number at 210 , " he said.

The number of wolves in Sweden increased again after the ban on hunting was issued in the 70s. Photo: home.nl.

Hunters say that authorities set a number of rules so that they don't shoot too many wolves. For example, whenever a hunter shoots and kills a child, they must notify the local authorities immediately.

"There are a lot of regulations. We have to check the number of wolves shot every hour," Gunnar Gloersson, a member of the Swedish Hunter Association, told national radio.

However, the Swedish Association for Conservation of Nature criticized the government's decision to carry out a campaign to kill wolves. They think it violates European Union regulations because the number of wolves in Sweden has not reached a sustainable level. National Radio said, the Nature Conservation Association has filed a lawsuit with the European Commission.

This is not the first time Sweden has conducted a wolf shooting campaign. A similar campaign took place 45 years ago.