Sweden

Things change very rapidly. Licence was for 9 wolves and in that area they now cilled 15. In another part 9 where licensed was 3. In total sofar 24 wolves are shot. A friend of mine living in Sweden send a lettre hoping they stop the cilling. He speeks Swedisch and works over there in Sweden most of the time protecting wolves 

 http://wolftracks.web-log.nl/wolftracks/english/index.html

Lets hope this madness stops.

10,000 hunters against them.  I read the injured wolves may exceed the quotas.

will be waiting to hear that conservationists efforts succeed to present the hunt as a violation of Europen Union legislation on species and habitat.

from this article, the wolf fights politics on all soil:

"He claims that the government wants to attract voters “by allowing the killing” but in actuality it has “fallen victim to the false arguments of the hunter lobby."

graphic photo of large female wolf killed and being weighed in this article

and here is an article with details from the BBC

They have killed what could be more than 10% of their struggling wolf population in one day.

No mention has been made about whether or not the 20 wolves Sweden was to implant in the country to reduce inbreeding was done?

They must be very proud.

edit:

 "Warning Graphic Content" 

link to photo 1 Copyright 2010 Agence France Presse

link to photo 2 Copyright Aftenposten

Jos, would you please edit your post to contain a link to these photo's with a "Warning Graphic Content" 

Thanks, Sharona