Wolves kill hundreds of reindeer in Northern Finland | News
The Finnish Game Center has issued nine permits for predator hunting in Kuusamo.
Wolves have caused destruction to reindeer herds in Kuusamo municipality in northern Finland.
The Finnish Game Center has issued nine wolf slaughter permits for the first nine months of the year to the reindeer cooperatives of Ala-Kitka, Oivanke and Kallioluoma Kuusamo.
One of the permits was used when hunters shot a wolf last Saturday in the Paljaka area south of Kuusamo.
“Hopefully we will be able to kill the remaining three wolves during the winter. If the wolves survive until the summer, they will certainly wreak havoc in the reindeer season,” said Jalmari Oikarainenreindeer herder from Ala-Kitka cooperative.
In autumn, hunters who received a special permit killed 14 wolves in Kuusamo.
Reindeer herder Heikki HärmäThe cooperative Kallioluoma said that wolves have killed more than 200 reindeer from their herd in Southern Kuusamo.
In 2021, according to the statistics of the Reindeer Herding Association, wolves killed almost a thousand reindeer in Kuusamo’s four herding municipalities.