Local authorities prepare to hunt Swedish beavers
Published: 16 Aug 12 16:07 CET | Print version
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Local authorities in Skaraborg, central Sweden, have been granted permission to shoot some of the beavers in the area, blamed for a flooding problem which has been plaguing the town.
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There are reportedly some ten Swedish beavers resident in the area, since the first arrived about ten years ago.
In their application to the county council, the municipality board asked for all the animals to be shot, but they were only granted permission to shoot one adult animal and any potential young beavers born last year.
The flooding has reportedly been a nuisance for residents in the Aspö area of Skaraborg, where some football fields have become waterlogged and walking paths flooded.
“It is our youngest members that are affected by this, our football school,” said Rune Espefät of the local Skövde AIK football club to TV 4 News.
“Of course the beavers also have a right to be somewhere but we would really like to have our playing fields to ourselves.”
It is a local stream which is flooding the grounds, a stream that the municipality has promised to clear and where the beavers live.
However, according to Ryttman, the flooding probably has more to do with recent heavy rains than problems caused by the local beaver population.
“It is completely wrong to shoot them, they are useful and an integral part of the Swedish fauna,” Ryttman told Skövde Nyheter.
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This is one of those rare occasions.
Is this the only reasonable solution Skaraborg can find? Are they actually Swedes in Skaraborg? This does not speak of the normal desire in Sweden to respect nature.
What a fantastic role model example for those 'younger people' whose football field gets flooded.
Hell, they'll be shooting raindrops next!!!!
Of course, their ponds are of absolutely no use to any other life forms - birds that are attracted, fish that spawn, frogs that breed, insect life that is rejuvenated in the pond area.
Vegetation increases around the pond area and the diversity of life in that area is increased.
Respectfully, Eric 1, nature has it's own ways of balancing the equations. You are only expressing one aspect of the equation.
Football players, on the other hand, enrich everything.huh?