Reindeer herding has got too much influence over the Swedish predator policy. The authorities must also have a tolerance level against predators, writing Margareta Sturemyr in compound Hunting critics.

The SVT program Mandate Review on "Predators and rendöden"get reindeer have their say and make a complaint on the losses they suffer due rovdjurspredation.

The above figures underlying the County Administrative Board of Jämtland decision on license hunting 100 bears 2018 - in order to achieve the administration's aim of reducing the damage caused by bears to reindeer husbandry in Jämtland and reach the Parliament's objective of a maximum 10 percent losses in reindeer due rovdjurspredation.

The herders in the program argue that the losses are greater. The Environmental Protection Agency's database Rovbase appears that the number of reindeer killed by bears in the last year, a total of six, and in the Jamtland had no clean killed by bear.

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I skriven av Margareta Sturemyr, Hunting critics