The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency wants to see increased hunting for elk

On average, 87 percent of the allocated moose are managed in 2017/2018. More moose in the forest means that the grazing damage to pine forest is increasing. In its proposal for amended hunting rules, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency notes that it is a problem that the target targets are not met. The Agency therefore wants the hunting times to be "as long as the biological framework permits".

In the northern parts of Sweden, a hunt is made during the hunting season of the moose. This, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency now wants to change by removing the possibility of the County Administrative Board to impose this type of restriction. Wildlife should not be hunted during its mating and breeding periods, the authors suggest, but "this may exceptionally need to be overridden when justified from a societal perspective such as grazing damage", the proposal states.

The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency refers to several studies of moose that have shown that the species is not sensitive to disturbances during brown.

In the past, the hunt in the hunt has also been motivated by the fact that there are more people than hunters who want to utilize the forest, for example for outdoor activities. But the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency believes that more hunting weeks during the autumn could increase the shootings and therefore wants to give hunters preference.

According to the proposal, hunting time for moose is also extended in several ways. Firstly, the hunt is set in northern Sweden and the hunting season is now proposed to be from September 1 to last February. Even the time allowed to hunt for a day is extended. According to the proposal, one must hunt from one hour before the sun rises to one hour after the sun sets.

In the current system, the county administrative board can control the hunt by imposing restrictions such as that large bulls must not be dropped. Here, too, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency wants to limit the power of the county administrative boards. "If the county administrative boards' ability to launch restrictions is removed, the opportunities for the license areas to reach the targets for targets increase," they write.

The county administrative boards' ability to exclude moose hunting areas that the general public uses for outdoor purposes is also removed.

The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency's proposal is preliminary and has now been sent out for a referral round.