Just feed the activists to the wolves and solve both problems.
Its those dumb ass farmers that live far from population areas and insist on building their farms next to the wolves natural habitat and then release their sheep to graze in the wild. And whenever one of their sheep (inevitably) gets eaten, they salivate because then they have an excuse to go shoot wolves. This process will be repeated until there’s no wolves left in Norway. At the current rate, there will be no Wolves left in Norway in 10 years.
Wolves are OK, nerf humans.
I can get why they killed animals to near extinction back in the day like the Caspian tiger by the Russians or the cape lion by the British those were different times and if one farmer came with a killed goat or something the governor would order the killing of the animal without blink but now? And in Europe? We take so much proud for being green and by the conservation protect that succeed like the bears in norther Spain it doesn’t make sense to me
The context for some readers:
Wolves in Norway and generally Scandinavia as a whole were nearly extinct at the start of the 20th century and up to the 1960s because of hunting practices, which has made the deer/moose population *explode* across the country. There are literally not enough hunters to hunt deer in western Norway each year because they’ve had such a massive population boom.
A group of wolves wandered over from Russia/Finland and established itself in Sweden during the 1980s. After that, the population has slowly but surely grown and has spread across the Scandinavian peninsula, which includes Norway.
Now, Norway has long been a rural country composed of mostly farmers but has declined in recent years as most developed countries do. So the few farmers that are left generally have a lot of sways politically when it comes to farming issues and that includes the aforementioned wolves.
Senterpartiet (Centre party) is the modern name for the old “farmers party” and generally focuses on rural issues, which of course include the farmers. The party is vehemently opposed to anything that damages the livelihood of said farmers and seethes with rage once something threatens that and in 2021 they won 13.5% seats during the election and is currently in the government.
Sheep (the major issue when it comes to the wolves) in Norway is usually just dumped in an open area with fences and/or in the mountains to forage for the spring/summer period with basically no supervision and this makes the sheep extremely easy prey for the wolves since they never have been accustomed to living with a predator in their environment (except maybe the bear) and have no protection.
Now, generally, the wolves kill very few sheep, but once they actually do that, the newspapers (and farmers) are outraged and generally wants to cull the whole population, as the title above says, even if some of the said farmers aren’t close to said wolf territory. As a statistical reference, according to SSB and Miljødirektoratet, the wolves injured/killed… [39 sheep in 2021](https://www.miljodirektoratet.no/aktuelt/nyheter/2021/august-2021/paviste-rovviltskader-pa-samme-niva-som-i-fjor/) while the whole sheep population in Norway is [*948 175*](https://www.ssb.no/jord-skog-jakt-og-fiskeri/jordbruk/statistikk/husdyrhald) so a whopping *0.004%* of the population, heck, according to the report by Miljødirektoratet I linked, eagles kill twice as many sheep but no one is outraged by that.
Sidenote:
A funny tidbit I remembered while writing this and shows how… *half-baked* the Centre Party is. Every Christmas period, Tine, Norway’s biggest producer of milk and cheese, update the designs of their milk cartons with a wintery or Christmasy theme. In 2017, they [*included a wolf*](https://www.nettavisen.no/nyheter/innenriks/tines-nye-melkekartonger-til-jul-har-satt-sinnene-i-kok/s/12-95-3423392072) on the design and farmers literally boycotted the milk until they removed it (which they didn’t) or it went out of season. The Centre Party came out and said that wolves had nothing to do with Christmas and that they killed *precious animals that were supposed to become Christmas food*, that the wolves are a threat to Norwegian food production and that the government was apparently to be blamed for the design? As I quote one of the Centre Party leaders:
> “Jeg har alltid lurt på hva H-en i H-melk står for. Nå lurer jeg på om det står for Høyre-melk eller Helgesen-melk”
> “I have always wondered what the H in H-milk stands for. Now I am wondering if it stands for Right-milk or Helgelsen-milk”
H-Milk or “Helmelk” is just “whole milk” with most of the fat in it.
“Right” or Høyre, was at the time the biggest party in the government and Helgelsen was a politician from said party.
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Just feed the activists to the wolves and solve both problems.
Its those dumb ass farmers that live far from population areas and insist on building their farms next to the wolves natural habitat and then release their sheep to graze in the wild. And whenever one of their sheep (inevitably) gets eaten, they salivate because then they have an excuse to go shoot wolves. This process will be repeated until there’s no wolves left in Norway. At the current rate, there will be no Wolves left in Norway in 10 years.
Wolves are OK, nerf humans.
I can get why they killed animals to near extinction back in the day like the Caspian tiger by the Russians or the cape lion by the British those were different times and if one farmer came with a killed goat or something the governor would order the killing of the animal without blink but now? And in Europe? We take so much proud for being green and by the conservation protect that succeed like the bears in norther Spain it doesn’t make sense to me
The context for some readers:
Wolves in Norway and generally Scandinavia as a whole were nearly extinct at the start of the 20th century and up to the 1960s because of hunting practices, which has made the deer/moose population *explode* across the country. There are literally not enough hunters to hunt deer in western Norway each year because they’ve had such a massive population boom.
A group of wolves wandered over from Russia/Finland and established itself in Sweden during the 1980s. After that, the population has slowly but surely grown and has spread across the Scandinavian peninsula, which includes Norway.
Now, Norway has long been a rural country composed of mostly farmers but has declined in recent years as most developed countries do. So the few farmers that are left generally have a lot of sways politically when it comes to farming issues and that includes the aforementioned wolves.
Senterpartiet (Centre party) is the modern name for the old “farmers party” and generally focuses on rural issues, which of course include the farmers. The party is vehemently opposed to anything that damages the livelihood of said farmers and seethes with rage once something threatens that and in 2021 they won 13.5% seats during the election and is currently in the government.
Sheep (the major issue when it comes to the wolves) in Norway is usually just dumped in an open area with fences and/or in the mountains to forage for the spring/summer period with basically no supervision and this makes the sheep extremely easy prey for the wolves since they never have been accustomed to living with a predator in their environment (except maybe the bear) and have no protection.
Now, generally, the wolves kill very few sheep, but once they actually do that, the newspapers (and farmers) are outraged and generally wants to cull the whole population, as the title above says, even if some of the said farmers aren’t close to said wolf territory. As a statistical reference, according to SSB and Miljødirektoratet, the wolves injured/killed… [39 sheep in 2021](https://www.miljodirektoratet.no/aktuelt/nyheter/2021/august-2021/paviste-rovviltskader-pa-samme-niva-som-i-fjor/) while the whole sheep population in Norway is [*948 175*](https://www.ssb.no/jord-skog-jakt-og-fiskeri/jordbruk/statistikk/husdyrhald) so a whopping *0.004%* of the population, heck, according to the report by Miljødirektoratet I linked, eagles kill twice as many sheep but no one is outraged by that.
Sidenote:
A funny tidbit I remembered while writing this and shows how… *half-baked* the Centre Party is. Every Christmas period, Tine, Norway’s biggest producer of milk and cheese, update the designs of their milk cartons with a wintery or Christmasy theme. In 2017, they [*included a wolf*](https://www.nettavisen.no/nyheter/innenriks/tines-nye-melkekartonger-til-jul-har-satt-sinnene-i-kok/s/12-95-3423392072) on the design and farmers literally boycotted the milk until they removed it (which they didn’t) or it went out of season. The Centre Party came out and said that wolves had nothing to do with Christmas and that they killed *precious animals that were supposed to become Christmas food*, that the wolves are a threat to Norwegian food production and that the government was apparently to be blamed for the design? As I quote one of the Centre Party leaders:
> “Jeg har alltid lurt på hva H-en i H-melk står for. Nå lurer jeg på om det står for Høyre-melk eller Helgesen-melk”
> “I have always wondered what the H in H-milk stands for. Now I am wondering if it stands for Right-milk or Helgelsen-milk”
H-Milk or “Helmelk” is just “whole milk” with most of the fat in it.
“Right” or Høyre, was at the time the biggest party in the government and Helgelsen was a politician from said party.