Comments on: Taking Aim: First Wolf Hunt in 45 Years Expected In Sweden http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/12/03/taking-aim-first-wolf-hunt-in-45-years-expected-in-sweden/ News & commentary on sustainability, activism, urban planning, politics, and our world. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:32:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ylva http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/12/03/taking-aim-first-wolf-hunt-in-45-years-expected-in-sweden/comment-page-1/#comment-63204 Ylva Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:07:30 +0000 http://ecoworldly.com/?p=5043#comment-63204 Good idea Tom. Please contact the Swedish minister of enviroment and tell him what you think and that you will buy nothing from Sweden as long as they listen to a small group of hunters and allow hunting on a population of just a couple of hundred wolves. You can contact him, Andreas Carlgren, trought this site, http://www.regeringen.se/sb/d/1682 click the link: e-post till Andreas Carlgren via registrator You can also write to the minister of agriculture, Eskil Erlandsson, a fanatic hunter who has himself worked hard for this disasterous carnivore policy, on this link http://www.regeringen.se/pub/road/Classic/article/117/jsp/Render.jsp?a=70261&m=popup&l=sv I live in the beautiful Swedish forest myself and is very sad and frustrated over the situation. Yesterday they killed two of "my" wolves. One was the alfa-female so this year we can not look forward to any new pups. Good idea Tom.
Please contact the Swedish minister of enviroment and tell him what you think and that you will buy nothing from Sweden as long as they listen to a small group of hunters and allow hunting on a population of just a couple of hundred wolves.
You can contact him, Andreas Carlgren, trought this site,
http://www.regeringen.se/sb/d/1682
click the link: e-post till Andreas Carlgren via registrator
You can also write to the minister of agriculture, Eskil Erlandsson, a fanatic hunter who has himself worked hard for this disasterous carnivore policy, on this link
http://www.regeringen.se/pub/road/Classic/article/117/jsp/Render.jsp?a=70261&m=popup&l=sv
I live in the beautiful Swedish forest myself and is very sad and frustrated over the situation. Yesterday they killed two of “my” wolves. One was the alfa-female so this year we can not look forward to any new pups.

]]> By: Tom http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/12/03/taking-aim-first-wolf-hunt-in-45-years-expected-in-sweden/comment-page-1/#comment-63200 Tom Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:48:21 +0000 http://ecoworldly.com/?p=5043#comment-63200 I'm also a swede and i feel really ashamed about the ongoing slaughter of our rare wolves. It has very little scientific support and is the result of a populistic decision to appease a small but very loud minority of hunters and livestock owners living in the countryside. I urge people all over the world to stop buying swedish goods and services in protest and express their disgust publicly. Sweden is a small nation that is dependent of trade and thus very sensitive to your actions. Save the wolves! /Tom I’m also a swede and i feel really ashamed about the ongoing slaughter of our rare wolves.
It has very little scientific support and is the result of a populistic decision to appease a small but very loud minority of hunters and livestock owners living in the countryside.

I urge people all over the world to stop buying swedish goods and services in protest and express their disgust publicly.
Sweden is a small nation that is dependent of trade and thus very sensitive to your actions. Save the wolves!

/Tom

]]> By: Cohen http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/12/03/taking-aim-first-wolf-hunt-in-45-years-expected-in-sweden/comment-page-1/#comment-63201 Cohen Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:33:25 +0000 http://ecoworldly.com/?p=5043#comment-63201 And now Sweden became the shame of the European Union. Unfortunately the Swedish Hunting Association is very influential and its members set in the Parliament. What can we do?? So... a country like Sweden with an area of 449,964 km2 has 200 wolves and those corrupt parliamentarians say they are too more.... What a hypocrisy, shame on you ! ! And now Sweden became the shame of the European Union. Unfortunately the Swedish Hunting Association is very influential and its members set in the Parliament. What can we do?? So… a country like Sweden with an area of 449,964 km2 has 200 wolves and those corrupt parliamentarians say they are too more…. What a hypocrisy, shame on you ! !

]]> By: Karl Berggren http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/12/03/taking-aim-first-wolf-hunt-in-45-years-expected-in-sweden/comment-page-1/#comment-63202 Karl Berggren Sat, 02 Jan 2010 12:38:11 +0000 http://ecoworldly.com/?p=5043#comment-63202 TLM, I'm Swedish myself and I'm following the ongoing slaughter with the utter most disgust. There hasn't been any reports of wolves attacking humans in sweden for tha last 120 years. I don't know what you are refearing to, but I'm pretty sure you are misinformed. Spear hunting wolves has not ever been in practice unless you are refearing to the dark ages, year 1400 B.C or earlier. The current hunt is the result of simpleminded hunters with a thirst for blood lobbying the goverment to have it their way. We have extensive finansial support to put up electric fences and compensate farmers for lost livestock. What's happening now i a discrase and I'm honestly ashamed of my country, which is not someting I'm used to. It's sweden after all. TLM, I’m Swedish myself and I’m following the ongoing slaughter with the utter most disgust. There hasn’t been any reports of wolves attacking humans in sweden for tha last 120 years. I don’t know what you are refearing to, but I’m pretty sure you are misinformed. Spear hunting wolves has not ever been in practice unless you are refearing to the dark ages, year 1400 B.C or earlier. The current hunt is the result of simpleminded hunters with a thirst for blood lobbying the goverment to have it their way. We have extensive finansial support to put up electric fences and compensate farmers for lost livestock. What’s happening now i a discrase and I’m honestly ashamed of my country, which is not someting I’m used to. It’s sweden after all.

]]> By: TLM http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/12/03/taking-aim-first-wolf-hunt-in-45-years-expected-in-sweden/comment-page-1/#comment-63205 TLM Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:50:15 +0000 http://ecoworldly.com/?p=5043#comment-63205 I was just reading some history of wolves in Sweden recently. Wolves killed a lot of people in the old days as well as taking a heavy toll on their livestock. One report showed 20 people killed in just one winter, and several more injured from attacks. If folks survived a wolf attack back then, the wolf could not have been rabid, as rabies was ALWAYS fatal. The hunting methods they used were unique to the region. Hunters on skis armed with long spears. I was just reading some history of wolves in Sweden recently. Wolves killed a lot of people in the old days as well as taking a heavy toll on their livestock. One report showed 20 people killed in just one winter, and several more injured from attacks. If folks survived a wolf attack back then, the wolf could not have been rabid, as rabies was ALWAYS fatal. The hunting methods they used were unique to the region. Hunters on skis armed with long spears.

]]> By: Sheila http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/12/03/taking-aim-first-wolf-hunt-in-45-years-expected-in-sweden/comment-page-1/#comment-63199 Sheila Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:31:27 +0000 http://ecoworldly.com/?p=5043#comment-63199 I am stunned, wtf, we haven't killed wolves in a long time, lets do it this weekend... bring the wife and kids. wake tf up people, it's a LIFE! they want to live as much as YOU do. I am stunned, wtf, we haven’t killed wolves in a long time, lets do it this weekend…
bring the wife and kids.
wake tf up people, it’s a LIFE! they want to live as much as YOU do.

]]> By: Fair Trade http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/12/03/taking-aim-first-wolf-hunt-in-45-years-expected-in-sweden/comment-page-1/#comment-63203 Fair Trade Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:06:08 +0000 http://ecoworldly.com/?p=5043#comment-63203 One expects better of the Swedes - killing things to make them more acceptable to the populace... sounds more like Berlin 1939 than Stockholm 2009. If humanity cannot justify culling it's own I don't see how it can justify killing marginal species. One expects better of the Swedes – killing things to make them more acceptable to the populace… sounds more like Berlin 1939 than Stockholm 2009.
If humanity cannot justify culling it’s own I don’t see how it can justify killing marginal species.

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