Are they still afraid of the big bad wolf in Finland? | Patrick Barkham
by Patrick Barkham from on (#15HTR)
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 countryside
There'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 have been killed since the end of August: 43 in a government-sanctioned cull, and 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.
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