A genetically valuable male wolf is since early November vanished. At the County Board assumes now that the wolf is dead and say they can not rule out poaching.

In Fell The territory of Orsa in Dalarna, the country perhaps most genetically valuable wolf existed. A wolf male who last winter wandered in from Russia which could have meant much in terms of new genes to the Swedish hard inbred wolf population.

Traces of the male has not been seen since 3 november, says Swedish Predators in an article on its website. Normally leave a wolf dog is not the bitch and her puppies, but now there are just bitch and three puppies left, the County Administrative Board stated at their traces.

- Very unhappy, says Jonas Bergman, operation coordinator at County Administrative Board Dalarna, which can not be excluded that the valuable wolf male victims of poaching.

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