On Sunday, another brown bear was shot, a bear in Namsskogan in Trøndelag. The Nature Conservancy believes that too many bears are shot in Norway, and demands that the Ministry of Climate and the Environment react.
A total of eight brown bears have been shot in Norway so far this year. Four in Finnmark, three in Innlandet and one in Trøndelag.
– This is seriously high shooting of a very small population that will grow much larger, says biologist Arnodd Håpnes of the Nature Conservation Association in a press release.
He points out that in 2023, 178 bears were registered in Norway, which amounts to 9.6 cubs. Spawning is when a female animal gives birth to young. Each litter is one young.
The Storting’s adopted minimum target is 13 annual cubs, a target that was set 20 years ago, but which has never been reached because too many bears are shot, according to Håpnes.
– The bear management system has failed and is not in line with the Storting’s predator agreement, he believes.
In a letter to the Ministry of Climate and the Environment, the organization is now asking that the ministry must react, and that the very high number of launches must be reduced significantly.
The association believes, among other things, that the threshold for felling damage must be raised significantly, that license hunting must be canceled and that the felling of bears in spring snow, animals that have just woken up and have not caused damage, must be stopped. One must also avoid shooting deer, and introduce hunting bans in areas known to contain deer or deer with cubs.
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2024-07-17 13:34:38
