{"id":133189,"date":"2024-08-21T09:05:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T06:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/we-cannot-continue-to-shoot-this-many-campaigners-hit-back-at-swedens-controversial-bear-hunt\/"},"modified":"2024-08-21T09:05:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T06:05:08","slug":"we-cannot-continue-to-shoot-this-many-campaigners-hit-back-at-swedens-controversial-bear-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/we-cannot-continue-to-shoot-this-many-campaigners-hit-back-at-swedens-controversial-bear-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We cannot continue to shoot this many\u2019: Campaigners hit back at Sweden\u2019s controversial bear hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133189\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Bear defenders say the hunt is more about \u2018macho prestige\u2019 than keeping the predators to a safe level. Around 500 bears are set to be shot in Sweden from tomorrow as the country\u2019s annual licensed hunt begins. In total, the government has approved the killing of 486 brown bears &#8211; 20 per cent of the wild population &#8211; between 21 August and 15 October.<\/p>\n<p>Campaigners say this \u201ctrophy hunt\u201d is incompatible with the large carnivore\u2019s status as a strictly protected species within the EU. \u201cThere are several ways to better live side by side, with many more than 3,000 bears in Sweden,\u201d says Magnus Orrebrant, chairman of the Swedish Carnivore Association. \u201cBy taking preventive measures to avoid damage and by using the great tourism value of bear watching as a tool for countryside development, which our neighbouring country Finland has proven to be very good at.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brown bears were hunted to the brink of extinction in Sweden at the beginning of the last century. They have steadily recovered thanks to protective measures introduced in 1927. In 2000, around 2,200 bears were estimated to be living in the country, rising to 3,300 in 2008. Compared to this 21st century high, the population dropped to 2,450 bears after last year\u2019s licensed hunt. Sweden\u2019s Big Five, a carnivore protection project, claims the government is \u201con a clear path\u201d to cull the bear population to 1,400 &#8211; the minimum number of bears needed for conservation purposes. This, the group points out, would represent a 60 per cent loss from the 2008 peak of Ursus arctos (as the species is officially known).<\/p>\n<p>Campaigners warn 100 years of brown bear conservation progress in Sweden is being undone at an alarming speed. \u201cWe can absolutely not continue to shoot this many bears if we are to have a stable bear population around the 2,400 bears we have today,\u201d says Jonas Kindberg, leader of the Scandinavian Bear research project run by the Swedish University for Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe risk [quickly facing] critical consequences for the bear population. The bear is sensitive to a high hunting pressure. Bears take 3 to 4 years to mature, they have only a few cubs at a time and only every 2 to 3 years,\u201d he explains. \u201cDuring the hunt it is very difficult to tell females from males, and the females are much more valuable to the population. Therefore, you risk ending up in a situation that may take a very long time to repair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/08\/20\/we-cannot-continue-to-shoot-this-many-campaigners-hit-back-at-swedens-controversial-bear-h\">Read more &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/08\/20\/we-cannot-continue-to-shoot-this-many-campaigners-hit-back-at-swedens-controversial-bear-h\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/we-cannot-continue-to-shoot-this-many-campaigners-hit-back-at-swedens-controversial-bear-hunt\/\">\u2018We cannot continue to shoot this many\u2019: Campaigners hit back at Sweden\u2019s controversial bear hunt<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[15790,848,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-133189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bear-hunt","tag-sweden","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}