a wolf in Fiskis

a wolf in Fiskis, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

Yesterday a young wolf visited Fiskis. How cool is that?! But unfortunately we need to protect the wolves in Sweden from stupid, superstitious and guncrazy hillbillies. These hillbillies wants to kill every wolf, bear and lynx they can find in our huge empty forests. They claim it's because they want to protect their livestock. But that's just bullshit. If they wanted to protect their livestock they could just as well use livestock guardian dogs as the ones above. They can protect livestock against attacks from all the big predatory animals we have in Sweden. The problem is that the Swedish hillbillies shows no interest at all in these dogs. They want to kill wolves and their hunting association is very influential. The government should stop paying all these hillbillies for killed livestock as long as they refuse to use dogs for protection.
Sweden has an area of 449,964 km² and 9 million citizens, most of them living in cities. In that huge empty space called Sweden there are approximately 100 wolves. In the Carpathian Mountains there live approximately 4000 wolves. 2800 of them in Romania (22 million citizens living on 238,391 km²), 450 in Slovakia (5 million citizens living on 49,035 km²) and 250 in Poland (39 million citizens living on 312,685 km²). There are approximately 200 wolves in Estonia (1,5 million citizens living on 45,226 km²) and 2000 wolves in Spain (43 million citizens living on 504,782 km²). So the big question is - why isn't it possible to have 100 wolves living in Sweden? We should be able to have at least 500 wolves in Sweden maybe a 1000 without problems. It's sad when a wolf is safer and more welcome in Stockholm than out in the countryside.