La Svezia inizia la caccia al lupo con l’obiettivo di dimezzare la popolazione degli animali a rischio di estinzione
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/01/sweden-wolf-hunt-halve-population-endangered-animal?CMP=share_btn_url
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Similar thing happening in Estonia. With wolf population increasing, it’s weekly news to hear they slaughter livestock (unfortunately almost always, they just kill them all in the pen (dozens and dozens), not just ones they eat). Almost weekly news about how they kidnap and kill people’s dogs.
Wolves are a big nuisance if their population grows bigger than endangered.
I find this bizzare. I’m all for hunting wolves who get too friendly with people and travel without fear in areas habited by humans. Instilling fear towards humans keeps both sides happy, and can’t be done without hunting the packs.
Mentioned amounts just seems absurd. Wild life has right to live in their space. Humans are the ones shrinking that space, and then acting offended when wild life does waht wild life does; adapts.
So firstly it’s important to note the wolf hunt in question is only targeting 30 wolves specifically targeting five wolf families.
The Swedish government has made it clear they wish to reduce the current wolf population by half from 375.
The rest of the article isn’t of much substance and is mostly conservation groups expressing the expected displeasure at the idea.
Also it might be in violation of EU law but that’s not my field of expertise.
funny, that in Poland we have almost 2000 wolves, on 1/3 smaller territory with almost 4 times more people, but there is no similar discussion. If they kill some sheep or something, the government is paying for it.
I wonder how it is related to the germanic traditions, where wolves are hated, and associated with evil
Backwards ass country. So “progressive” but honestly not smart
Good, much like how we keep our forests is our business, not the continental’s.
I suggest the Swedish government to educate themselves about the concept of rewilding. That is a proven method to stabilise nature. What they are doing now is exactly the other way around.
The illusions that men can control nature.
Disgusting.
To make it even more endangered? Nice job, Sweden. *facepalms*
I’m pretty sure there’s a lot more things farmers can do to protect livestock than just killing wolves.
Where I live I’ve seen a lot of farmers introducing Maremano Sheepdogs, and these dogs are no joke. They live permanently together with the sheep, usually have their own little house and the farmers feed them when they feed their sheep.
I’ve been walking a few times and come across large flocks of sheep and goats and then suddenly a couple of these enormous white sheep dogs appear, you don’t see them at first because they blend in well with sheep.
When two of these square up and start barking at you, you know if you come any closer they mean business, and I can imagine they’re very good at deterring wolves.
Wtf. Leave them alone.
Wolves have a role in the ecosystem. Props to Romania with their 6,000 wolves. 🐺
How utterly demential. It goes to show that the forests in Sweden are naught but a glorified pine plantation for ikea and a playground for apes with a firestick…
First, wolves are a species that groups in families, and studies have proven that elimination not only doesn’t decrease behaviour that’s dangerous to humans, but also counterproductive, as fragmented wolf families (especially if the breeding female is the one killed) lead to more solitary wolves having to engage in risky behaviours and hunt alone. But hey, I guess if you kill like all of them it’s not going to be a problem… Which leads us to…
Second, wolves are the main species that regulates the population of deer and other ungulates, which are very voracious forest herbivores, and their overpopulation leads to reduced forest growth, as they eat younger saplings. Which is actually even more idiotic, because now, either they lose profits from trees being eaten before they even grow or… the eventual solution to that would be to engage even more apes with firesticks to hunt more of them down, which goes a full circle. Simply moronic, and I thought less and less people wanted to engage in hunting… but no, Sweden must keep the fucking “tradition” alive.
Sweden should be halving someone else’s presence in the country.
Just capture the wolves and dump them here in Russia, we have enough space I swear.
Why not just relocate them to Scotland or somewhere that doesn’t have enough?
Hard to find data for 1960’s but kids back then had guns! So unless you want to arm kids at the bus stop the pop needs controlling.
*”By 2013 the 250 wolves in the* [*Western Alps*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Alps) *imposed a significant burden on traditional* [*sheep*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep) *and* [*goat*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat) *husbandry with a loss of over 5,000 animals in 2012″*
250 killed 5,000 animals in just 1 year!
They killed hundreds of bears a few months back as well, some lovely people of power in that country.
What is wrong with Sweden?
What a utter load of BS, Sweden.
In Italy we have 8x the number of wolves in a country that is much more densely populated and smaller and we’re able to coexist without culling such a vital part of the ecosystem.
Just give them to us. We have space, forest, and dogs breed to protect live stock against them.
The last time someone was killed by a wild wolf in Sweden was like in 1820
Feels way too early, only should shoot problem wolfs, we really should be better to share our world with animals.
I find this a bit confusing. I’m Swedish and I can’t find anything about this on the news. I found one source from like yesterday from a private newspaper that gave this as a suggestion but I read at the website of the people who gives the license to hunt says that it starts January 2 and ends at February 15 and only 30 wolfs will be killed in. Also is mentions that only hunt will be allowed in some areas of Sweden. On each area only 6 wolves will be killed. In 2024 they killed 35 out 36 wolves