Comment by sandos
2 days ago
"Don't Scandinavians generally vehemently support the eradication of native species like wolves" - Don't know where you got this idea from. Yes, Sweden has started allowing licensed (very regulated) hunting of wolf, but only because the population has increased a lot. There is already tension between livestock farmers and wolfs in places, and I believe allowing wolfes to become much more than what we currently would eventuallt results in _fewer_ wolfs because they would start getting hated.
The greens have long been staunch supportes of wolfs in Sweden, and its the right which is not. Atm we do have a right leaning government so... Im sure it will sway the other way eventually.
> but only because the population has increased a lot
Swedish wolf population is extremely small relative to its geographical size.
There are less than 400 wolves in Sweden. For example there are 1500 wolves in Poland, possibly twice that in Italy. How many times more farmers livestock those countries have? Let alone people. The Baltic states have more than twice as many wolves as Sweden and Norway put together...
Sweden is 50% larger than Italy and six times less people, yet somehow several times less area available for wildlife?
Talking about farmers..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_use_statistics_by_country
Sweden has only slightly more cultivated land than Lithuania (and Norway several times less than that), let alone Poland or Italy...