Help save the Wolf in Scandinavia
The wolf was almost extinct in Southern Scandinavia (Southern Norway and Southern Sweden). As the wolves live in the border area between Norway and Sweden, the two countries agreed to work together to re-establish the wolf and manage it collectively. Up until now this has been successful. Today there are 10 family groups with > about 80 wolves all together. Despite the agreement between the two countries on common management of wolves The Norwegian Minister of Enviroment, Siri Bjerke, recently gave green light for the killing of two wolf families (18 animals)on Norwegian soil. This means that about one quarter of the entire wolf population will be erradicated.
Swedish authorities, on the other hand, signaled that they want to increase the wolf population in Sweden to 200 individuals as a first step, and later to 500. Swedish Minister of Environment Mr Kjell Larsson, seeing Sweden's aim being threatened by the unilateral Norwegian decision, has written a letter of protest to his Norwegian colleague.
Friends of the Earth Norway and other environmental organisations in
Norway strongly object to the planned killing of the two wolf families.
FoEN accepts that single wolves can be taken out if they do great damage,
i.e. kill many sheep, even after adequate precautionary measures have
been taken. But to kill of two entire wolf families at this stage is totally
unacceptable.
Please, support Friends of the Earth Norway's fight to save the wolf and
e-mail your protest as soon as possible to Minister of Environment Siri
Bjerke at siri.bjerke@md.dep.no
We hope that you can write individual protests. This is more efficient
than standardized letters. Your protest does not need to be long. If you
need more background information, please read below or feel fre to contact
Friends of the Earth Norway at thor.midteng@naturvern.no
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