"Unreasonable reindeer herding with high predator pressure"

UPPDRAG GRANSKNING ·Parliament has decided that reindeer do not need to lose more than ten percent of their reindeer to predators. At the same time, research shows that certain Sami villages are losing more than that, up 20 percent, and that it hurt them financially. Now open countryside Minister Sven-Erik Bucht (S) for a change in the law: 
- You can not herd reindeer with as high predator pressure.

Under Swedish law there must be viable carnivore populations in Sweden. Meanwhile, based on herding reindeer herding freely on natural pastures, which means that several reindeer killed by predators every year.

- I have a great understanding of the reindeer and the Sami communities who are affected. It's very difficult to herd reindeer of predator pressure becomes too hard. And it was because of what the parliament decided on the tolerance level of ten percent, says Rural Affairs Sven-Erik Bucht.

Do not rule amendment

The tolerance level introduced by Parliament in 2013, and says that a Sami village should not have to lose more than ten percent of reindeer to predators

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