The government maintains that the Swedish licensed hunting of wolves is not a breach of EU species protection rules and that the wolf population is becoming less inbred. Last night answered the government commission’s latest criticism.
The answer to the 94 points are now the EU Commission to assess and it can be crucial to Sweden’s fare from ending up in the European Court of Justice for breach of the EU Habitats Directive.
European Commission have questioned the repeated licensed hunts of wolves in Sweden, with the reason that the hunt threatens to wolves long-term conservation in Sweden. Nor has Sweden succeeded in their plans to move immigrated wolves that can bring new genes to reduce the degree of inbreeding among the wolves, says the Commission.
The current government inherited wolf conflict with the EU by the alliance government and had now first the opportunity to explain their policy for the Commission.
Criticism of the repeated licensed hunting respond to the government that it does not move for several yachts as it has not been all year. Although a decision was licensed hunts both 2013 and 2014, but Swedish courts have stopped them.
The European Commission pointed out that the wolf prevented from multiplying in places other than in central Sweden. There is a misunderstanding, according to the government, and writes that the wolf is present in large parts of Sweden.
The Government emphasizes that the wolves are less inbred than the previous year and that plans continue to move wolves . Several analyzes of Swedish wolf is also underway and will soon be reported.
SSNC president Johanna Sandahl is critical of the response from the government.
– The government’s response to EU criticism contains nothing new that could appease Commission. It does not contain any promise that licensed hunting should be stopped, no representation that the hunt be reduced to a level that the wolf population can tolerate or similar.
– Thus, the government will not move an inch away from a collision course towards the Commission, says Johanna Sandahl.
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