Norway and Sweden will collaborate on license hunting of wolves – NRK Innlandet – Local news, TV and radio
This is the first time the Norwegian and Swedish authorities are the only ones to shoot wolves in a common border area.
This means that the entire Rømskog flock in Østfold and Akershus on the border with Sweden will be taken out.
The decision today is historic, says leader of the Predatory Game Committee, Stein Tronsmoen.
– There have been some meetings to try to reach a common understanding of how we should do this, and we have managed that now, says Stein Tronsmoen.
The Predatory Game Committee for Hedmark, Oslo, Akershus and Østfold had to postpone the decision on license hunting in the previous meeting to await what the Swedes decided.
The County Administrative Board of Värmland has now stepped in to take out three wolves in the Swedish-Norwegian Rømskog area. Then the hunters in Norway will take out the rest of the herd.
- It was probably wolves from the Rømskog herd that attacked sheep in Marker in Østfold earlier this week:
Will shoot 28 wolves in the wolf zone
In today’s meeting, the Predatory Game Committee also decided to take out the wolves in the Hornmoen area in Elverum, Mangen in Aurskog-Høland / Eidskog and the Bograngen area in Grue / Åsnes during the license hunt.
That is, a total of around 28 wolves inside the wolf zone.
The license hunt will start in January. But the leader of the tribunal, Stein Tronsmoen, reckons that their decision will be appealed.
– We will then have to deal with it again in November and then it will be the Minister of Climate and Environment who will make the final decision towards Christmas, Tronsmoen says.
Until the government negotiations between the Labor Party and the Socialist People’s Party are completed, it is unclear who will be the climate and environment minister when matters are to be decided.
Not decided
The Rømskog herd was decided to be shot last year and the year before last, but both times the Ministry of Climate and the Environment, which is the appeal body, removed the herd from the final decision.
They can do the same this year. Stein Tronsmoen points out, however, that the herd has also been shot in Sweden for the first time.
- The genetically important pair of wolves that were moved to Østfold have puppies: