Annual hunt to cull 300 brown bears in Sweden
Published: 20 Aug 12 15:11 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/42724/20120820/
Sweden’s annual bear hunt begins Tuesday, with over 300 of Sweden’s brown bears to be killed over the next two months in an effort to control the predator’s population figures.
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In County Västerbotten in northern Sweden, the bear population is estimated to be somewhere around 300, and 25 bears are to be killed there this season.
Michael Schneider, an expert on predators at the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (Naturvårdsverket), is responsible for the bear culling in Västerbotten.
“There is a long list of conditions that the Västerbotten hunters must meet if they wish to take part in the hunt. The terms are there to avoid adverse effects and to evaluate the hunt afterwards,” he told the Västerbottens Kuriren newspaper.
The hunt, together with traffic accidents and deaths in self-defense, is expected to lower the bear’s population by 10 percent – meaning the county’s bear population has not grown this year.
“We’ve succeeded in maintaining the bear population well over the past few years. The results we’ve had from the spore inventory in 2009 shows that we are keeping the population at roughly the same level since 2004,” explains Björn Jonsson, head of conservation in the area, to the paper.
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I can see the argument for control,but I still regret that it must be done.
Having seen a black bear when in a car park in Canada I can honestly say it was a once in a lifetime experience, it breaks my heart to hear these impressive animals are to be slaughtered.
Imo it is the human animal that should be culled, far to many of them on this planet.
But seriously, why do they have to kill them? Can't they just capture them and give them away to some zoos or something?
I just created a new petition and I hope you can sign
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Stop_killing_bears_in_Sweden/
let's do something about this cruelty!