Letter to the editor. Stop the hunters’ hope of sniper on the squirrel

Why would anyone chase squirrel? Many who have taken part in the Swedish Hunters’ Association’s intentions.

Right now, a proposal round is underway where the organizations concerned may comment to the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency on the new hunting times. These determine which species should be hunted and during what periods they may be hunted. It has then emerged that the Jägareförbundet, which is the country’s largest hunting organization, has wanted an introduction of general hunting for squirrels during the period November 1 to March 15.

Squirrels cause very few injuries and if they do, there is already the possibility of shelter, according to the Hunting Regulation. Therefore, a general hunt is completely unjustified.

The squirrel has been protected Since 2001 and every time the hunting times are to be updated (normally every six years), the Jägareförbundet tries to lob in general hunting for the Swedish people’s beloved rodents.

There is no use with squirrel hunting. Few, if any, will take the time and the trouble to peel a squirrel for the sake of the small skin or the flesh. Why then does the Hunters’ Association want to chase the Swedish squirrels?

In addition to the Hunters’ Association wanting as many species as possible to be chased for as long as possible, you can only finalize it to two alternatives. Either they try to tactically get the conservation organizations to fight purely absurd proposals such as bow hunting and now hunting for squirrels, so that nature conservation should not be able to gather resources to gain land on other fronts. A kind of plus/minus game.

For those who do not believe that it is the question of tactics, only one alternative remains. A gloomy and dystopian one that can be discerned in closed hunting groups on social media, where cynicism and truth are mixed unfiltered: the squirrels are an appealing sliding training.

It can withstand to be considered How appropriate it is that a union that has been given the state assignment and over 80 million annually to manage game care in the country, suggests that you get dot on squirrels?

Is this modern « game care »? Should the country’s hunters be allowed to practice sniper on the country’s squirrels? It is extremely inappropriate for the Hunters’ Association to advocate hunting for more species in each referral round. Twelve red listed species (seven of which are endangered) are chased annually and the Hunters’ Association wants them to be more.

For 20 years, the number of red -listed mammals and birds has increased by 50 percent in 20 years in the country. Last hunting season is shot over 50,000 red -listed animals. The advocate of hunting for even more species is in the shadow of this extremely strange.

A healthy game management And wildlife conservation should take into account the interests of nature, the environment, and society with equal distribution. Instead, the Jägareförbundet has a comprehensive influence on politics and administration, with the help of which the union annually erodes biodiversity. Over 1.2 million animals are shot per year in the Swedish forests.

Pure entertainment hunting does not belong in a modern society and squirrels should not have to act as living targets for a smaller interest group’s sake.

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