May 28, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Animals":
Society: 25 May 12
The Paradise Wildlife Park in the UK has pledged their allegiance to Sweden in the Eurovision song contest by making their own film version of Loreen’s “Euphoria” – complete with dancing animals.
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Travel: 22 May 12
With a history spanning over 1,000 years, the German state of Saxony has transformed over time from medieval duchy, a state of the Holy Roman Empire, kingdom and republic.
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Business & Money: 21 May 12
An error involving a Swedish printing press has turned into a very expensive headache for South African central bank officials who have been forced to destroy millions of dollars' worth of faulty banknotes.
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Society: 11 May 12
Four men who were arrested while out hunting beaver in central Sweden at the weekend are being held in custody as prosecutors continue their hunting crimes investigation related to suspected illegal hunting of wolves.
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National: 10 May 12
An entire herd of pregnant reindeer plummeted to their deaths off a 1,200 metre-high cliff in northern Sweden, leaving a grisly scene which left local herders stunned.
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National: 9 May 12
A fifteen–year-old girl who was visiting Sweden’s Kolmården Safari park a few weeks ago had to be rushed to hospital after one of the wolves suddenly attacked her and bit into her thigh.
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Business & Money: 7 May 12
Swedish company Viking Genetics has been supplying the Chinese with over 100,000 doses of bull sperm over the last year and is hoping for the same this year, as the country means to double its heifer population.
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Society: 21 Apr 12
Three jaguars, the first ever specimens of the exotic cat to set foot in the country, recently arrived to a zoo in central Sweden.
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National: 5 Apr 12
A cat-sitter in Sweden was recently arrested by police after threatening the owner with a samurai sword when he wanted to retrieve his pets.
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Society: 2 Apr 12
A cat which was discovered in central Sweden "with a limp" was taken by police and shot dead, and then dumped on a roadside.
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National: 31 Mar 12
A family of elk have been causing consternation for police and motorists alike on a stretch of Sweden’s main motorway, with hunters set to be deployed in a bid to entice the animals away from danger.
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Society: 20 Mar 12
The final wish of a Swedish man who died last week will never be realized, as his pet dog won't be allowed to attend his dead owner's funeral.
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Society: 17 Mar 12
A Swedish educational association behind a Christian art exhibit in Stockholm has withdrawn a drawing after protests from a US-based Jewish group that it was anti-Semitic.
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Society: 15 Mar 12
A buxom Swedish blonde blogger "lost a breast" after a rough-and-tumble reality show mud wrestling match dislodged one of her silicone implants.
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Society: 12 Mar 12
A new high-speed railway in northern Sweden has already claimed the lives of 200 reindeer since it opened three months ago, forcing the farm owner to move to safer pastures.
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Lifestyle: 6 Mar 12
Celebrities worldwide have tried getting their tongue around Swedish and The Local has collected a sample of those who were either terribly bad - or surprisingly good.
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Society: 1 Mar 12
A Swedish dog sledder's perceived racist insults ruined a recent reunion of Iranian graduates in Kiruna and left their Sweden-based host "ashamed" of inviting her friends to the country.
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Society: 28 Feb 12
A parakeet in New York has been learning Swedish – in order to console a feathered Facebook friend from Malmö in southern Sweden who was feeling a bit under the weather.
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Science & Technology: 20 Feb 12
Swedes are eating more meat each year and in order to reduce the effect this has on the climate, they ought to change beef or chicken for rabbit meat, according to an expert on agricultural science.
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Society: 11 Feb 12
A Swedish man was keeping 73 cats and two dogs in one small apartment, animal protection officers discovered to their horror. Urine, faeces and fur balls covered the apartment's floors, and several of the animals were inbred.
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Analysis & Opinion: 8 Feb 12
The Swedish language is in need of a new pronoun free of preconceived notions about gender, argue a Swedish linguist and representatives from a publishing house set to release a children's book featuring the word “hen” rather than “han” (he) or hon (she).
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Society: 8 Feb 12
A dog-owner in eastern Sweden is believed to have carried out a botched operation on his own dog without the use of anesthetics or properly stitching the wound.
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National: 23 Jan 12
A farm-owner in northern Sweden has been reported to police after a horse was found to have overgrown hooves measuring an "unprecedented" 50 centimetres in length, leaving veterinary inspectors in shock.
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Society: 16 Jan 12
After a string of pet rabbits went missing from a town in western Sweden, bunny-loving residents are hopping mad that the disappearances may be the work of a copy-cat thief inspired by recent media attention on the case.
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Society: 5 Jan 12
A Swedish couple was recently convicted of animal cruelty and forced to pay after keeping a large number of neglected cats in their Stockholm house.
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Society: 30 Dec 11
Six elk were hit by motorists in northern Sweden in the span of a few hours on Thursday afternoon, bringing the three day total of accidents involving large mammals to at least 20 for the region.
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National: 29 Dec 11
A Swedish elk hunter who felled her first elk with a single shot that passed through the animal only to hit and then kill a cross-country skier, has been acquitted of manslaughter charges.
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Lifestyle: 22 Dec 11
No Swedish-style Christmas is complete without a julbord buffet. Food blogger Maia Brindley Nilsson takes a look at what goes into making the perfect Swedish Christmas meal.
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Lifestyle: 21 Dec 11
Some face time with Sweden's mighty elk led best selling children’s book author Jan Brett to choose the 'King of the Forest' rather than sleigh-pulling reindeer to star alongside a family of trolls in her latest Christmas-themed book, The Local's Joel Linde discovers.
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National: 21 Dec 11
A 22-year-old man from southern Stockholm got 15 months in prison on Wednesday for ”sadistically” torturing a puppy to death, a sentence that may well be the longest ever in an animal cruelty case in Sweden.
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National: 28 Nov 11
After years of debate on the issue, a new proposed law on animal welfare suggests the outlawing of sexual encounters with animals in Sweden, a practice previously decriminalized in 1944.
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Society: 28 Nov 11
The trial against the hunter who fired a single shot that passed through an elk before hitting and killing a cross-country skier, opens on Monday in Sweden.
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Science & Technology: 24 Nov 11
A Swedish philosophy researcher recently published a paper on time perception, where the moment ”now” is described as two seconds long, and made up of a past and a present.
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Society: 21 Nov 11
A velvet-voiced Dutchman who could also hold his own on a mechanical bull didn't let a lack of snow diminish his joy at being crowned winner of the 2011 Santa Games in Gällivare in northern Sweden on Sunday.
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National: 16 Nov 11
A man has reported a Swedish zoo to the Consumer Agency for misleading information, after the piglets that he had adopted were fed to the tigers in the park without him being informed.
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National: 14 Nov 11
A 28-year-old man has been sentenced to community service after customs inspectors atStockholm Arlanda Airport found almost 50 reptiles, including 41 scorpions and five vipers, in his baggage.
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Science & Technology: 9 Nov 11
According to meteorologists, the month of November has so far seen the least snow in over a hundred years in Sweden, in stark contrast to last year's late autumn blizzards.
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Society: 9 Nov 11
Sweden's beloved Pippi Longstocking children's books have found themselves at the heart of a racism row after a German theologian demanded additions to prompt parents to skip over or explain certain passages.
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Science & Technology: 2 Nov 11
The bankruptcy of a Swedish zoo has left three endangered crocodiles homeless and lawyers struggling to find someplace new for them to live.
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Society: 28 Oct 11
A 21-year-old animal rights activist from western Sweden is facing charges for sending various threat letters -- some written in his own blood. He is also suspected of setting a hamburger restaurant on fire.
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Society: 27 Oct 11
A man in western Sweden was greeted by an unusual sight on Wednesday morning when he saw three elk engaged in what appeared to be group sex in his backyard.
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National: 20 Oct 11
Police suspect another child may be the culprit in the killing of a 4-year-old boy in south central Sweden as national criminal investigators and profiling experts have been called in to assist the investigation.
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Society: 17 Oct 11
The 40-year-old Swedish bird enthusiast who caught more than 13,000 wild birds was sentenced on Monday to 18 months in prison for aggravated hunting crimes, animal cruelty, and violating Sweden's protected species laws.
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Science & Technology: 16 Oct 11
Swedish roosters are bred for the sole purpose of becoming lip enhancements and anti-wrinkle creams, according to a report in Swedish media.
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Business & Money: 14 Oct 11
Swedish home furnishings giant Ikea plans to stop selling a number of well-known Swedish-branded foodstuffs in its stores around the world in a move toward stocking exclusively Ikea-branded food.
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Society: 14 Oct 11
A 37-year-old mother of two from northern Sweden had an unprecedented hunting outing on Thursday when she managed to fell five elk in four hours, propelling her to nationwide fame.
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National: 29 Sep 11
On Thursday a man from Solberga, in southern Stockholm, was charged for torturing his puppy to death.
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National: 26 Sep 11
A team of Swedish hunters made a gruesome discovery when out patrolling the woods in central Sweden last Sunday when they stumbled upon a tray full discarded elk entrails.
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Sport: 26 Sep 11
As Sweden's autumn hunting season gets into full swing, the AFP's Igor Gedilaghine, gets a firsthand glimpse into Sweden's great elk hunt.
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National: 26 Sep 11
Hunting is becoming more and more popular in Sweden with over 10,000 people taking their hunting certificate this year alone, representing a near 10 percent increase on last year.
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Travel: 22 Sep 11
From lakeside castles to elk safaris in the north, a holiday in Sweden has lots to offer. Here are some ideas of what to do.
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Society: 21 Sep 11
Mats Broberg of Värmland county in central Sweden recently snagged the ultimate hunting trophy after he felled a massive 280 kilogramme, 15 point white elk.
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Science & Technology: 19 Sep 11
Several human skulls found mounted on wooden stakes have been uncovered from a Stone Age lake bed in central Sweden in what is believed to be the first discovery of its kind anywhere in the world.
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National: 13 Sep 11
On Tuesday the trial against 24 people for possessing and distributing child pornography opened in Sweden, in a case that has drawn widespread attention as all but one of the defendants are women.
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National: 13 Sep 11
Photographer Terje Hellesö, has been stripped of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency's Nature Photographer of the Year award after admitting that he manipulated a number of his pictures of predatory animals.
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Lifestyle: 6 Sep 11
Sweden’s wildlife can be hard to find at the best of times, but luckily, if it's an elk you want to see, a safari park near Stockholm promises to get you so close you might even get a smooch, Oliver Gee discovers.
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Science & Technology: 5 Sep 11
Photographer Terje Hellesö, recipient of a Swedish Nature Photographer of the Year award, has been reported to police after admitting that he manipulated a number of his pictures of predatory animals.
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Society: 28 Aug 11
Two police officers were taken to hospital in Skåne in southern Sweden on Saturday after their squad car collided with an elk.
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Science & Technology: 23 Aug 11
Swedish game wardens have sounded alarm bells that the rapid growth in the raccoon and raccoon dog population in Denmark could result in the invasive species swimming across the Öresund channel and establishing themselves in southern Sweden.
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National: 23 Aug 11
An 84-year-old man forgot that he had his dog tied to his tow-bar when when he jumped in his car to leave a rest stop, proceeding to drag the hapless household pet over three kilometres to its death.
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National: 22 Aug 11
Many wild animals are believed to suffer in vain in Sweden after drivers who have run them over fail to mark out the place of the accident.
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Society: 19 Aug 11
A family of Danish tourists has demanded compensation after a disappointing visit to a Swedish wildlife park which featured elk which were "too small".
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Society: 5 Aug 11
Concerns about a salmonella outbreak have forced a petting zoo in southern Sweden to close its doors, after it was confirmed that at least one foal was infected with the highly contagious disease.
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Society: 29 Jul 11
Police raided the apartment of a woman in Gävle in eastern Sweden after being tipped off that she was caring for a wild hedgehog in violation of the country's hunting laws.
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Science & Technology: 27 Jul 11
An outbreak of anthrax at a farm in central Sweden has prompted veterinary officials to launch an investigation into where cows that died from the disease have been buried in Sweden going back to 1916.
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National: 24 Jul 11
A case of anthrax has been discovered at a cattle farm outside Örebro, in central Sweden, with more animals suspected to have been infected.
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National: 23 Jul 11
There's more truth than one might think to bears' mythical fondness for honey. Beekeeper Lars Höglund has had to learn this lesson the hard way, as more than 90 of his hives have been attacked by bears.
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National: 12 Jul 11
Hundreds of cats being kept in a small apartment, lame horses kept unwatered and battered and bruised pooches - the number of pet-owners losing their right to keep animals on the grounds of abuse is increasing steadily in Sweden.
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Lifestyle: 1 Jul 11
With the summer sun in the ascendancy, it’s time to lather on the sunscreen, pack a picnic, and head out to explore some of the 50,000 playgrounds on offer across Sweden. The Local’s Karen Holst tips some of the country’s best.
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Science & Technology: 22 Jun 11
Swedish health officials have neglected to issue warnings about contaminated cocaine circulating in the country, despite evidence that cocaine in Sweden may contain an antibacterial agent primarily used to rid animals of parasites.
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Travel: 20 Jun 11
With Midsummer rapidly approaching, The Local's Clara Guibourg explores the wonders of the Stockholm archipelago and discovers a couple of gems off the beaten track.
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National: 16 Jun 11
Two Swedes have been confirmed as infected by the multi-resistant bacteria MRSP, marking the first time such infections have been detected in humans in Sweden.
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Science & Technology: 13 Jun 11
Doctors in Sweden are preparing to transplant the womb of a 56-year-old woman into her own daughter.
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National: 20 May 11
A Swedish prosecutor on Friday indicted 23 women and one man for possessing and distributing child pornography, in a case that has drawn widespread attention because so many of the defendants are women.
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Society: 20 May 11
A Swedish man in his fifties who was allegedly caught having sex with a sheep near Alingsås in western Sweden denies being guilty of animal cruelty.
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Science & Technology: 14 May 11
The warm weather being enjoyed by most of Sweden at the moment also brings with it the combined danger of more wasps and snakes across the country.
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National: 27 Apr 11
Sweden's Supreme Court has ruled that Sami reindeer herders in northern Sweden can continue to let their animals graze in forests despite the objections of landowners, ending a 20 year dispute.
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Society: 27 Apr 11
Hordes of lemmings are making their way down from the Swedish mountains, falling victim to traffic in what has been described as a real "massacre".
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National: 19 Apr 11
The drinking water in Skellefteå in northern Sweden has been contaminated by the same intestinal parasite that sickened thousands of residents in Östersund earlier this winter.
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National: 11 Apr 11
Swedish hunters have slammed a proposal that the Swedish wolf population needs to more than double in order to be viable, forwarded on Monday by the head of a government inquiry into the matter.
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Politics: 29 Mar 11
Sweden's environment minister has responded to European Commission criticism for allowing a recent cull of the country's wolf population, saying that the hunt was needed to boost acceptance of the animal.
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Society: 22 Mar 11
The number of sadistic sex crimes against animals in Sweden has doubled over the past four years, according to Swedish Veterinary Association figures.
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Education: 20 Mar 11
The summer vacation usually means a chance to earn some much needed cash for young people in Sweden, but if you can’t get a job you might as well become an expert on Harry Potter.
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National: 11 Mar 11
Five elk calves have been found starved to death in Värmland in central Sweden recently, with experts fearing that the drawn out harsh winter may claim further victims.
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Society: 8 Mar 11
The Swedish National Food Administration has discovered that a number of chickens were not bled during the slaughtering process and thus may have been scalded and plucked alive.
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National: 16 Feb 11
Despite the odds in their favour, an estimated 6,000 Swedish hunters weren't enough to shoot the 20 wolves authorised to be killed in Sweden's controversial wolf hunt, which ended on Tuesday.
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Society: 15 Feb 11
A train and an elk were both stopped dead in their tracks when they collided with one another along a rail line in central Sweden on Monday night.
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Science & Technology: 14 Feb 11
A new drug to combat alcoholism developed at the University of Gothenburg's Sahlgrenska Academy may become reality in the future.
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Science & Technology: 14 Feb 11
A tapeworm that can be fatal to humans has been discovered in a Swedish fox, marking the first time the parasite has been found in Sweden.
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Business & Money: 10 Feb 11
Sweden does not generate enough rubbish and 600,000 tonnes of foreign refuse were imported in 2010 to meet demand from district heating plants.
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Politics: 9 Feb 11
French former movie star and animals right campaigner Brigitte Bardot has written to the Swedish government to register her disgust at what she calls a "retrograde" wolf hunt.
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Science & Technology: 8 Feb 11
Swedish Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren defended the licensed wolf hunt in Sweden's parliament, the Riksdag, on Tuesday, claiming that it would help bring in new wolves and save the wolf population from inbreeding.
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Politics: 27 Jan 11
The European Commission on Thursday formally reported Sweden’s wolf hunt for violating European Union environmental laws. Sweden’s environment minister said that the hunt would nevertheless continue.
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Politics: 17 Jan 11
Sweden's wolf hunt violates EU law, environment commissioner Janez Potocnik said on Monday, vowing to drag Sweden to court for allowing the hunt to continue this year.
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Science & Technology: 15 Jan 11
Sweden's wolf hunt for the year began on Saturday, with nine wolves out of the allotted annual quota of 20 shot by 1pm, as protesters set off fireworks at a hunting area in Dalarna.
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Science & Technology: 14 Jan 11
A Siberian tiger cub at a Swedish zoo was bitten to death by an adult tiger on Monday, Kolmården Wildlife Park officials confirmed on Friday.
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Politics: 13 Jan 11
Despite looming legal action from the European Commission and complaints about the size of the quota, 6,500 Swedish hunters are set to go after 20 wolves in Sweden's second annual wolf hunt.
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Society: 7 Jan 11
Sweden has opened its first-ever cinema for dogs so that pet pooches can accompany their owners to the movies.
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Science & Technology: 5 Jan 11
A county veterinarian has speculated that the birds that fell from the sky in central Sweden on Tuesday may have been frightened by fireworks, then run over by a car after landing on the road in the dark.
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National: 25 Dec 10
The environment was in focus as the King gave his traditional Christmas Day speech. He also thanked the people of Sweden for their support for the royal wedding.
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