Scandinavia

Kenneth Jonsson, The Big Four in Scandanavia Wolf tracking operations have been underway in Värmland since 1982, when the Swedish National Environmental Protection Agency’s trackers followed up reports of wolf sightings from the northern part of the county. At the end of the 1980’s the Swedish National Environmental Protection Agency delegated responsibility for wolf tracking […]

The Norwegian government has decided to kill five of the country’s grey wolves – a quarter of the entire population Alex Kirby / BBC News / January 2005 It says the decision is necessary to protect domestic livestock, but one campaign group has condemned the cull. WWF-Norway says two wolves have been shot already, one

Norway’s fledgling wolf population managed to evade a large team of hunters who launched a four-week pursuit over the weekend. The hunters claimed three sightings, but none fired a shot Aftenposten / January 10, 2005 Norway’s wolves are in the firing line for the next five weeks. These, however, are safe in a wildlife park.

Aftenposten / April 5, 2005 This female wolf was said to have been shot by mistakeFive wolves were shot last winter, including a key female that one hunter felled “by mistake,” he said. The wolf hunt was highly controversial, both within Norway and especially outside the country, and now researchers indicate it was indeed misguided.

Cameron Walker / National Geographic News A single wolf may have nudged the threatened Scandinavian wolf pack along the road to recovery. Less than two decades ago, only a handful of wolves loped across southern Scandinavia. Now their numbers have soared to more than 100. One lone wolf turned the tide for this isolated group,

Lars Furuholm: Director of Environmental Protection, Värmland County Administrative Board Today, the wolf has established a small but permanent population in Scandinavia. In February 1998 there were around ten known pairs, and a number of lone wolves. In total, the wolf population of Norway and Sweden is estimated to consist of 50 individuals. The story

Norway has an uneasy relationship with its wolf population Aftenposten / November 6, 2007 Researchers have found traces of 40-50 wolves in Norwegian territory for the winter of 2006-2007, and the population in the region appears stable. Half of the animals traced did not stray outside of Norway, the other half also roamed to areas

The Local / Sweden’s News in English / August 21, 2007 Wolves and other beasts of prey take too much blame for the mysterious deaths of tame animals. Half of all deaths blamed on wild animals can in fact be attributed to other causes, say researchers. So far this year animal owners have reported 145