With unique access to remote communities in the snow-capped landscape of Norway, this film follows characters on either side of a fierce debate on whether to cull the wolf population. For decades the topic has split political parties, families and communities across the country, with environmentalists world-wide criticising Norway for how it handles its tiny population of critically endangered wolves. Here, a group of hunters await news from the government on whether their yearly hunt will be permitted, while the environmentalists anticipate the worst. With angry threats on both sides, the film takes a deep dive into what’s at stake for both groups, as well as the wider world
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When the first wolf was sighted in Denmark a few years ago, people starting crying “kill” immediately and “they will kidnap your babies from the garden”.
There are farmers that lost sheep to the wolves, which are now a pack, but they get subsidies for special fences. In the south of Europe people always had and have to guard their animals against wolves and even bears, but here in Denmark we are a bit spoilt. In Norway however, there should be enough space for a small population of wolves. There are wolves and bears in Sweden and Finland, I never heard them complain.
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I wondered why the wolves seem to live so close to human settlements in Norway? Perhaps they don’t in Finland and Sweden?
We have similar arguments against the reintroduction of beavers in the UK!
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That might be true that in Sweden and Finland they live more in the wilderness. Maybe they don’t find so much prey anymore in Norway? I am not aware of the wildlife population there.
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That’d explain why they’re preying on sheep in Norway.
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They also take sheep in Denmark, but also deer. But then, the hunters want to kill the deer and don’t want the wolves to kill them for survival … it is all a bit weird. I mean, it is o.k. for a human hunter to kill a deer for “fun”, but not for a wolf for food?
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