SCANDINAVIA VOX POP – IS WOLF HUNTING ACCEPTABLE?
August 1st, 2007
BY LARS RUGAARD, in Copenhagen
THE GREY wolf is held responsible for killings of livestock by farmers and forest proprietors in northern Scandinavia, who often vigorously defend their right to hunt wolves. Wildlife activists at the same time are protesting and campaigning against further reduction of a threatened species. But what do urban Scandinavians think? Should wolf hunting be permitted in the remote north of their region?
*Carsten Junker Nissen, 30, research assistant, Sorø, Denmark:
Yes, if the problems inflicted upon the local human population are ...
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