For the past few days, Swedish skeptics have been shaking their heads in disbelief over Mora municipality’s office for the environment.

ﻠStockholm, Sweden (Associated Press) - Sweden says it will stop its licensed hunt for wolves this year due to the threat of legal action from the European Union.

ï» Sweden (BBC) – Illegal poaching accounts for over half of all deaths of Swedish wolves, suggests a new study.

Experts were Monday trying to track down and anaesthesise a wolf sighted on the outskirts of the southern city of Helsingborg.

Stockholm – Licensed wolf hunting is necessary to secure public support for a viable wolf population in Sweden, Swedish Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren on Monday said in response to European Commission criticism of the practice earlier this year.

STOCKHOLM — Sweden’s controversial wolf hunt, which has sparked widespread criticism from environmentalists and legal action from the European Commission, ended with hunters failing to cull one of the 20 animals in the quota, officials said Wednesday.

Swedish Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren defended the licensed wolf hunt in Sweden’s parliament, the Riksdag, on Tuesday, claiming that it would help bring in new wolves and save the wolf population from inbreeding, while experts say the population is just too small.

The European Commission plans to take legal action against Sweden over a wolf hunt that allegedly breaches EU law

  Stockholm – The Swedish government wants ‘tougher’ legislation against illegal hunting of wolves, Environment Minsiter Andreas Carlgren said Monday, on the eve of this year’s licensed wolf hunt.

A council vote for a Swedish municipality declares its desire to remain wolf-free.