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	<title>HOWL Colorado &#187; Sweden</title>
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		<title>Swedish man demands that wolf radio collars be &#8220;turned down&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://howlcolorado.org/2011/11/29/swedish-man-demands-that-wolf-radio-collars-be-turned-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past few days, Swedish skeptics have been shaking their heads in disbelief over Mora municipality&#8217;s office for the environment.
The office had taken the complaints of a man with radiation phobia seriously and demanded that all radio transmitters in the area be turned down or re-pointed to ensure that the man&#8217;s house would not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sweden stops licensed wolf hunts after criticism from EU commission</title>
		<link>http://howlcolorado.org/2011/08/17/sweden-stops-licensed-wolf-hunts-after-criticism-from-eu-commission/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ï» Stockholm, Sweden (Associated Press) -Â Sweden says it will stop its licensed hunt for wolves this year due to the threat of legal action from the European Union.

Swedish Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren says the government has decided to stop the hunt to avoid arduous legal proceedings in Brussels. He said Wednesday Sweden will instead expand the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swedish wolves threatened by under-reported poaching</title>
		<link>http://howlcolorado.org/2011/08/17/swedish-wolves-threatened-by-under-reported-poaching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ï» Sweden (BBC) &#8211; Illegal poaching accounts for over half of all deaths of Swedish wolves, suggests a new study.

Basing their estimates on long-term wolf counts, the researchers reveal that two-thirds of poaching goes undetected.
The study suggests that without the past decade of persecution Swedish wolves would be four times more abundant than they are today.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experts tracking wolf sighted in southern Swedish city outskirts</title>
		<link>http://howlcolorado.org/2011/04/11/experts-tracking-wolf-sighted-in-southern-swedish-city-outskirts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Experts were Monday trying to track down and anaesthesise a wolf sighted on the outskirts of the southern city of Helsingborg.

Several sightings were made on Sunday. On Monday, staff at an animal hospital spotted the wolf and alerted authorities as they feared it might attack dogs kept there.
&#8220;As far as we know, the animal has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swedish government defends wolf hunt in face of lawsuit</title>
		<link>http://howlcolorado.org/2011/03/28/swedish-government-defends-wolf-hunt-in-face-of-lawsuit/</link>
		<comments>http://howlcolorado.org/2011/03/28/swedish-government-defends-wolf-hunt-in-face-of-lawsuit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stockholm &#8211; 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.

Controlled hunting was &#8216;necessary to secure acceptance&#8217; for wolves among farmers, hunters, reindeer herders and others in rural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AFP: Controversial Swedish wolf hunt ends, one shy of target</title>
		<link>http://howlcolorado.org/2011/02/17/afp-controversial-swedish-wolf-hunt-ends-one-shy-of-target/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 02:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[STOCKHOLM â€” Sweden&#8217;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.

&#8220;The hunt is now over in all regions,&#8221; Anneli Nivren of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency told AFP, adding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swedish minister defends hunt claiming it will help wolves</title>
		<link>http://howlcolorado.org/2011/02/08/swedish-minister-defends-hunt-claiming-it-will-help-wolves/</link>
		<comments>http://howlcolorado.org/2011/02/08/swedish-minister-defends-hunt-claiming-it-will-help-wolves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swedish Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren defended the licensed wolf hunt in Sweden&#8217;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.

&#8220;There is only one way to save the wolf. We have to bring in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swedish government under fire over wolf hunt</title>
		<link>http://howlcolorado.org/2011/01/19/swedish-government-under-fire-over-wolf-hunt/</link>
		<comments>http://howlcolorado.org/2011/01/19/swedish-government-under-fire-over-wolf-hunt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The European Commission plans to take legal action against Sweden over a wolf hunt that allegedly breaches EU law

Sweden is allowing hunters to shoot a total of 20 wolves this year. It reintroduced the wolf hunt in 2010 &#8211; the first in Sweden since 1964.
But Environment Commissioner Janez Potocnik says wolves in Sweden have an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sweden mulls tougher laws against illegal wolf hunting</title>
		<link>http://howlcolorado.org/2011/01/10/sweden-mulls-tougher-laws-against-illegal-wolf-hunting/</link>
		<comments>http://howlcolorado.org/2011/01/10/sweden-mulls-tougher-laws-against-illegal-wolf-hunting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Stockholm &#8211; The Swedish government wants &#8216;tougher&#8217; legislation against illegal hunting of wolves, Environment Minsiter Andreas Carlgren said Monday, on the eve of this year&#8217;s licensed wolf hunt.

During the month-long hunt that opens Saturday, hunters will be allowed to shoot 20 wolves.
The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention has estimated that between 25 and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sweden continues schizophrenic approach to wolves</title>
		<link>http://howlcolorado.org/2010/02/22/sweden-continues-schizophrenic-approach-to-wolves/</link>
		<comments>http://howlcolorado.org/2010/02/22/sweden-continues-schizophrenic-approach-to-wolves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A councilÂ vote for aÂ Swedish municipality declares its desire to remainÂ wolf-free.

In what amounts to mere posturing,Â Nordanstig&#8217;s council voted through a propositionÂ which declaresÂ itsÂ desire to &#8220;work for a wolf-free municipality,&#8221; according to a report which appeared on aÂ Swedish news website.
The bizarre part? There have been no wolves in the municipality for more than a century and if wolves [...]]]></description>
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