There will be no licensed wolf hunt in Sweden this winter, after the Environmental Protection Agency said it could not take place due to dwindling numbers of wild wolves.
Sweden's Environmental Protection Agency (Naturvärdsverket) is trialing a new method of calculating the country's stock of wild wolves: collecting and analysing their excrement.
Campaigners have taken their fight to stop next year's wolf hunt to the highest court in Sweden, with only days to go until the hunt is supposed to start.
Everyone knew that the tiny population of wolves in Norway and Sweden was inbred. Using precise genetic techniques, researchers can now describe the severity of the problem.
Wolf sightings are rare in Sweden unless you're at a zoo, so it's no surprise that a video of one of the animals happily running alongside a car has spread quickly since it was published at the weekend.
Five wolves were shot by Swedish hunters on Saturday morning, meaning they have killed 22 out of the 24 wolves for which licences have been granted after just one week.
A top Swedish court has allowed the hunting of 24 wolves early in 2017 in a decision slammed by environmental campaigners who fear a shooting spree could put the species at risk.
The former director of a Swedish zoo has been convicted of manslaughter over the death of a co-worker who was mauled by wolves at the park in the south of the country four years ago.
Between the <a href="http://www.thelocal.se/20150108/are-wolves-on-the-loose-in-stockholm" target="_blank">wolves</a>, <a href="http://www.thelocal.se/20160622/mother-bears-use-humans-as-shields-against-male-killers" target="_blank">bears</a> and even the <a href="http://www.thelocal.se/20160830/hungry-elk-wreak-havoc-in-swedish-forests" target="_blank">hungry elk</a>, Sweden has its fair share of wild animals to look out for. Yet it was an ostrich rather than a native Scandinavian beast that struck fear into the hearts of one town this week.
Sweden's population of wolves is declining, with experts announcing on Wednesday that there are currently an estimated 340 left in the country, down by 20 percent from the previous year.
A video of the terrifying moment a wolf attacks a zookeeper at one of Sweden's biggest animal parks 20 years ago has scared viewers after being published online for the first time.
Swedish courts on Wednesday authorised the
culling of 14 wolves pending a top court's decision on the legality of hunting
an animal protected under European law.
A temporary ban on wolf hunting in parts of the country has been ordered by Swedish courts, favouring animal rights activists in one of the nation's most hotly disputed environmental issues.
The EU forced Swedish wolf hunters to hang up their rifles, but increasingly audacious predators have rural dwellers speaking of torment, injured dogs, clawed livestock, and a ban that disrespects democracy.
Swedish alpaca farmers suspect that a wolf attacked and killed six of its animals on Wednesday night at their central Sweden farm, which supplies alpaca wool to the Swedish fashion industry.
