Sweden has severly violated the rules within EU, for protection of endangered species of carnivores, when lifting the ban for licenced wolf hunting, after 45 years. The Swedish wolf population ranges only around 250 wolves in the whole large country, and is severly endgangered by illegal hunting, caused mainly by local intolerance and hate.
This is the first positive major step in helping the wolves survive, since the brutal three day slaughter between January 2-4th took place.
Please read the following article:
"Today hits environmentalism EU Comission" (google translate version)
By Jon Rohner
According to environmentalists, Sweden has violated the common rules on how endangered carnivores should be protected within the EU. Today the results will meet representatives of the Nature Conservation Society, WWF and the Swedish Society for Predators to a group senior officials at the European Commission.
According to Nature Conservation, WWF and the Swedish Society for Predator, now in place in Brussels met European Commission, Sweden has violated the EU's nature and habitat. A notification will be submitted shortly.
The organizations said that they are extremely hopeful that the EU will force the government to change its predator policy.
Previously, Finland has been convicted of hunting of wolves in similar circumstances. Environmental organizations argue that there is no doubt that the Swedish wolf hunting is illegal.
Scientists agree that the wolf in Sweden is far from a favorable status. The wolf is still an endangered species displayed on the official red list. "The hunt is simply illegal,"said SSNC chairman Mikael Karlsson. Nature Conservation Society also notes in a press release that the rules of the Habitats Directive, adopted in 1992. Sweden pledged to follow the directive of the accession to the EU in 1995. The directive makes clear that hunting license may only be permitted if the species reached the "favorable conservation status".
During the hunt wolves were felled indiscriminately without ready access to reduced property damage, the hunt was not targeted at specific individuals. Therefore, I believe that Sweden will be felled in the same way as Finland. I am convinced that the Commission and the Court will see through the government's increasingly strained attempts to persevere that the pursuit in January was legal, "says Oscar Alaric is environmental lawyer at the Society for Nature Conservation, who is now on place in Brussels.
Read the article in Swedish, at the original source: http://miljoaktuellt.idg.se/2.1845/1.285073/vargjakten-idag-traffar-miljororelsen-eu-kommissionen
UPDATE: The news has made it to the Swedish National Television SVT today:
Read: "Wolf hunt reported to the EU-comission"
("Vargjakten anmäls till EU-kommissionen") - http://svt.se/2.22620/1.1847371/vargjakt..
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