The House of Appeal approves protective hunting for wolves

The County Administrative Board of Östergötland on June 11 decided on a hunting hunt on a wolf in the Långbogenreviret north of Roxen. This after two calves were killed the day before.

A number of people and organizations, including the Swedish Predators Association, appealed the decision to the Administrative Court in Luleå, which rejected all appeals, but with the addition that no wolf may be shot if annual puppies are nearby.

This week, the Chamber of Appeal also decided to reject the Swedish Predators' Association's request that the shelter be halted, ie stopped.

Björn Ljunggren from the Swedish Predators Association does not believe in seeking trial at the highest court, the Supreme Administrative Court.

- I don't believe it when all previous bodies have said no, he says.

The County Administrative Board's decision to hunt for protection on a wolf in the area extends the month. Björn Ljunggren believes that the permit will be renewed if no wolf is shot before last June, but he will neither get support nor be opposed by Mia Kjällander, game manager on the County Administrative Board.

- I don't want to speculate on that. It depends on what happens until then, she says.

In the last shelter on the wolf in 2011, the hunt was extended on two occasions before the wolf was finally shot in October.

According to the Administrative Court's decision, no wolf can be shot if there are annual puppies in the vicinity, and Mia Kjällander says that the puppies quit after six to eight weeks and then possibly move further from at least the wolf breed.

- We estimate that the puppies are about six to eight weeks old, says Mia Kjällander.