Swedish hunters have begun culling wolves for the first time in 45 years after parliament ruled that numbers needed to be reduced again. Hunters have until 15 February to complete the cull, which will leave Sweden with an estimated 210 wolves.
Some 10,000 hunters were reported to be planning to take part in the hunt to kill 27 wolves out of the population of 210.
Nevertheless, the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation was critical of the decision to proceed with the cull, saying it was against EU legislation as the Swedish wolf population had not reached a healthy level. A formal complaint was to be issued to the EU Commission, Swedish radio said. The hunt is timed to end before the mating season, which begins in mid-February.
Wolves were hunted to near extinction in southern Scandinavia until a hunting ban was imposed in the 1970s.
Sweden and Norway have worked together to reintroduce the species to the forests along their border. When Norway culled some wolves in 2001, saying the population had spread too far, Sweden lodged a protest. But the Swedish parliament recently decided there should be at most 210 wolves in Sweden. Michael Schneider of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency says that was the level last year, and since then more than 20 pairs of wolves have had pups.
This cull is pointed out because there are 61 million domestic dogs in America and what happens if some bureaucrat decides the time has come to reduce the numbers?
The FBI estimates that there are over 200 million privately-owned firearms in the US. If you add those owned by the military, law enforcement agencies and museums, there is probably about 1 gun per person in the country or about 350,000,000 guns in Total.
China culled their dogs in most brutal fashion because dogs are bourgeois and do not conform to Communistic views.
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