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hmmm. I actually had the notion that Denmark embraced the return of wolfs. But I guess there's always some who are afraid that the wolf's are gonna eat all our animals or something lol.
But overall I think we are happy to have them?
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Hmm, maybe it's not as big of a debate as I believed then? You're from Denmark, right?
My reason for saying this was that I read a few newspaper articles with debates going on between environmentalists and farmers who obviously had very different beliefs as to what they should do with the wolves. One of them was illegally killed already, and I'm not sure about the rest of the small wolf population in Denmark right now.
But I'm glad to hear that you think that the overall population in Denmark is glad to have them!
That is true that some farmers are not happy to have them here! But our environmentalists are super protective of them and most people are backing up the environmentalists.
I guess some of the farmers are scared it might complicate their business or something
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Yep, we have the same problem here in Norway where farmers are super angry at the wolves because they eat some sheep. But it's good that people seem to back up the environmentalists; here in Norway people seem very divided, and a lot of people are anti-wolves.
Really? In Norway too? In a country so famous for its beautiful pristine nature? But the wolves are an integral part of it too! We cannot have sympathy for just some species. at least - I am pretty sure the wolf population in Norway is much bigger than those in, for example, my country, right?
I'm sad to say this, but Norway is likely one of the worst countries in Europe when it comes to predator protection. A lot of it comes down to tradition, and we have this (rather stupid in my opinion) tradition of free ranging sheep. This means that all the farmers can have their sheep free ranging in the mountains, which is nice and all, but it leaves no room for the predators.
Once a wolf, bear, or wolverine enter a non-predator zone they will get shot very fast, typically within a few days. The wolf and bear populations here are extremely low - maybe something like 50 wolves and 20-30 bears.
This is a huge debate here in Norway of course, but we have yet to achieve a good victory for the predators. That being said, I completely agree that we cannot choose and pick which species to have sympathy for, but most people don't tend to agree unfortunately.
Oh wow, I thought you guys have thousands or at least hundreds of wolves in Norway... Thank you for all the insights @valth, I just learned a lot of new things, as usually. Let´s hope new measures will be taken to protect the "bad" animals just like we tend to protect the "good" and cute ones. After all, there is no good and ad in nature. Nature is a whole.
Yeah, one would think that. Our neighbor Sweden is like that (close to 500 wolves, and several hundreds bears), because they don't have the tradition of free-ranging sheep, so they don't have this huge discussion about how many predators to have.