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Sweden allows nearly 10% of wolf population to be killed. The government wants an even more drastic cull
The wolf is a canine native to Eurasia and North America. Wolves eat large wild hooved mammals, smaller animals, livestock, and garbage. Though their population relative to humans is not as large as the crocodiles in and around Darwin, Australia (Vol.4646), there are quite a few wild wolves in European countries. Thanks to legal protection, the population of wild wolves is estimated to exceed 20,000 from 14,000 in 2016 in the EU. This year, the Swedish government wants to reduce its wolf population of 375 by 10% as part of its effort to lower the minimum wolf population from 300 to 170 to protect humans and livestock, even though the status of wolves is still “highly threatened” on The Swedish Red List. As the Convention of the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (Bern Convention) recently lowered the protection status of wolves from “strictly protected” to just “protected,” conservationists are worried that other European countries like Germany, Italy, or Spain would downgrade the wolf’s protection status and cull more wolves as Sweden does. How many wolves are too many to protect human lives? How many are too few to cause genetic problems to protected species?
Read the article and learn how Sweden is trying to coexist with wolves.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/04/europe/sweden-wolf-hunt-controversy-intl/index.html
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