At the beginning of 2020, the so-called Girja goal was decided.
The Supreme Court ruled that Girja's Sami village in Norrbotten has the exclusive right to lease hunting and fishing in the area due to antiquity.
It is no secret that the Swedish Sami National Association, SSR, now hopes that what happened in Norrbotten will also happen elsewhere.
When the reindeer husbandry law is to be reviewed, this is exactly what SSR highlights.
Want to review the provision of hunting in the mountains
- What we have presented are the parts that concern the provision of small game hunting and fishing after Girjasdomen.
There we have said that you have to review it because you now have an HD ruling which admittedly concerns Girjas but which probably also applies to other areas, says SSR's federal lawyer Jenny Wik Karlsson.
She continues:
- It can not be reasonable that we should run 44 more processes.
In any case, they need to start looking at that part.
Do you think it should be like in Girjas across the mountain range?
- Yes, that was why they went into the process.
That it is a right man has.
Understand that there can be conflicts
Jenny Wik Karlsson understands that the issue of hunting and fishing can create conflicts.
- When it comes to Sami issues and rights issues related primarily to hunting and fishing, it often becomes a polarized debate.
She continues:
- But it is also a bit strange because it is about us exercising our right, which we believe has been violated for a very long time.