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Old 10-02-2009, 21:07   #1
mijke
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Default Petition for wolves in Sweden

I did receive a request of Rick from Sweden to add here his article about sign a petition for the wolves in Sweden.
I hope that many people want to sign! (name and city / country are sufficient, email address is not required)

It has happended again, last saturday a wolf was LEGALLY shot in our area. Reason was that in the past 5 months wolves killed 5 loose huntingdogs.

It has happended again, last saturday a wolf was LEGALLY shot in our area. Reason was that in the past 5 months wolves killed 5 loose huntingdogs.

http://bohuslaningen.se/nyheter/uddevalla/1.209261


The area where this happened however is so large that it partly overlaps three wolfterritories. Huntingorganisations demanded the killing of the “dangerous” and unnatural behaving wolf, and the authorities granted.

It is however very likely that there where more than one wolf that tried to protect their territory from rivals as they see it right before mating season and killed the dogs. Natural behaviour this time of the year.

The chance that this 43 kilo female is not the bad wolf in question is very big. No DNA analyses result is known yet.

Hunting with loose, driving huntingdogs, though forbidden in other european countries, is very populair in Sweden and unfortunately measures to keep wolves away from these dogs like collarbells and protectionvests are not compulsory.

Wolves in Sweden are suffering from inbreeding because of the remote location and reindeerfarming in the North prevent most wolves with important genes to wander in from Finland. Because of this problem wolves have small litters and sometimes deformitys.

Total number is 200. The wolf in Europe is a threatened, redlisted species and and is protected under Habitatlaw and Berncovention.

The problem is that allthough the autorities yield enormously to the demands of huntinglobbys the past two years (several law adjustments made it easier to kill wolves in case of conflicts ) these lobbys have now started a petition to allow free hunting of wolves!

A protestpetition as a result has begun to show the government that there are other people that are willing to allow wolves their right of existence in Sweden and that it would be better to avoid conflicts with wolves by using electrical fences around cattle and sheep and collarbells and protectionvests for driving huntingdogs. This as an alterativ to just killing them.

Please sign and spread the petition if you can support this!

http://upprop.nu/0450

Gr Rick


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