are they still afraid of the big bad wolf in finland? | patrick barkham /

Published at 2016-02-29 21:41:05

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The animals are being slaughtered – yet other European nations are able to live alongside lupines. It seems hunters don’t want to give up their total control of the countrysideThere’s been a massacre in Finland. The country,which from afar looks to epitomise sustainable living, has slaughtered a third of its wolves this winter. Seventy-five wolves bear been killed since the end of August: 43 in a government-sanctioned cull, or most of the rest under a licence system that allows “problem” wolves – those repeatedly found in villages or menacing farm livestock – to be shot dead. Related: Finland approves wolf hunt in trial cull Continue reading...





Source: theguardian.com