The case in summary: The first wolf was shot on Tuesday after the period for delicensing wolves started on 1 January. The wolf was an adult bitch from the Fjornshöjden district. Five activists were arrested for destroying flag posts marking the hunting area in Rømskog in Aurskog-Høland. They received an advance of NOK 12,000. Licensing of wolves in the wolf zone lasts until 15 February. The felling quota in Oslo and Viken is eight wolves. Board member of the Nordre Rømskog landowner association, Gudbrund Kvaal, states that many people in the wolf zone are afraid to go out with their dogs freely, for fear that the dogs will be attacked by wolves. Chairman of the interest organization Aktivt Rovdyrvern, Jim Schellander, reacts to activists being removed from the area. The summary is made by an AI service from OpenAi. The content is quality assured by news’s journalists before publication. – I can confirm that a wolf was shot yesterday. It was an adult bitch from the Fjornshöjden district, says senior adviser in the State Administrator in Oslo and Viken, Christian Hillmann, to news on Wednesday afternoon. Hillmann states that it is probably a leader bitch. Indre Akershus Blad reported the felling first. They write that it was an adult wolf weighing 29.2 kilograms. – The felling quota in Oslo and Viken is eight wolves, but this can be changed continuously. For now, our aim is to take out the remaining seven wolves, says Hillmann. Licensing of wolves in the wolf zone started on New Year’s Day and can last until 15 February. – The wolves are from two areas that lie across the national border. If the wolves are in Sweden, we are not allowed to shoot them. If wolves from other areas enter the area, the state manager can cancel the hunt or change the hunting area, explains Hillmann. Five people arrested On Tuesday, five people were arrested for destroying flag posts that the municipality had put out to mark the hunting area in Rømskog in Aurskog-Høland. This is according to Alf Minothi, lawyer on duty in the East police district. – They were arrested for causing damage or complicity in causing damage. A person was also arrested for not complying with the police’s order to remove himself from the area, says Minothi. – Is it illegal for the activists to stay in the area? – When hunting takes place, and you are in the area, you can expose yourself to danger. You are allowed to disagree about the hunt, but you cannot prevent a legal hunt, says Minothi, and adds: – The arrested were fined 12,000. One of these would not comply with the police’s order to remove himself from the area, and then received an additional summons. – The government’s task Board member of the Nordre Rømskog landowners’ association, Gudbrund Kvaal, says that a hunting party met the activists in the forest on Tuesday. – The activists themselves have a stated goal that they want to disrupt the hunt, so it is funny that they say they only want to observe. It is the state’s task to observe the hunt, not the activists, says Kvaal. He says that the landowners of the area must give permission for hunting. They are also the ones who call in the hunters to organize a hunting team. Gudbrund Kvaal, board member of the Nordre Rømskog landowner association, Photo: Emilie Kirkeby-Garstad – I think it will be difficult for the hunting team to take the entire quota. With the current snow it will be more difficult to move, but this applies to both people and animals, says Kvaal. – What is the reason why the landowners allow the hunting of wolves? – What the individual landowners have as a reason, I cannot speculate, but much of the basis of life in these areas was changed after wolves were reintroduced, says Kvaal. Kvaal says that several people are afraid to go out with their dogs freely, for fear that the dogs will be attacked. Many are said to have given up livestock such as sheep because of the wolf. – The most important thing for many of us who live in the wolf zone is that the authorities show with this license suspension that they are serious when they say that the number of wolves must be managed and that this will not become a wolf reserve, concludes Kvaal. – Getting it wrong Chairman of the interest organization Aktivt Rovdyrvern, Jim Schellander, reacts to activists being removed from the area. – I think such orders from the police are wrong. Almost two municipalities are blocked off, and peaceful people are prevented from going there. They use arguments such as that it is for our own safety, but then it should apply to all hunting, says Schellander. Jim Schellander, chairman of Aktivt Rovdyrvern, believes it is unreasonable that the activists are banished from the area where hunting is taking place. Photo: Private – Is there a warning about moose hunting and hare hunting today? – People are encouraged not to go in these areas during other hunting, but there are no police who actively block off the areas as they do now, says Schellander. Schellander is clear about where Aktivt Rovdyrvern stands in the debate on wolf hunting: – We are against wolf hunting, and believe the Ministry of Climate and Environment’s decision on wolf culling is wrong. Today, the wolf population in Norway is designated as a maximum target. We are probably the only country in the world that spends a maximum amount on a critically endangered species. Schellander finally specifies that he does not support damage, and that the five activists who were arrested are not part of Aktivt Rovdyrvern. news has previously been in contact with KLD on Monday. No politicians from the ministry had the opportunity to be interviewed.
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