Sweden begins Wolf cull
From BirdGuides.com:
Sweden has this month begun culling its Wolf population in a move campaigners say is illegal under EU law.
The cull officially began on Thursday 2 January, with the country aiming to halve the population of the canid. Five entire families can be killed, totalling 30 individual Wolves.
Sweden’s Wolf population dropped by almost 20% in 2022-23 and there are now an estimated 375 individuals in the country. The decline is due to increased hunting pressure, and the government announced that it intendedto halve the population, with 170 Wolves becoming the new minimum level for “favourable conservation status”, instead of the current minimum of 300.
