Subject:
ANOTHER WAVE OF WOLF KILLINGS IN NORWAY - IRRESPONSIBLE AND SELFISH ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOUR
BY A MODERN OF STATE
By electronic mail to:
Minister of the Environment
Mr. Knut Arild Hareide
The Directorate for Nature Management
Members of the Parliament Standing Committee on Energy and the Environment
Dear Minister,
Dear Madam and Sir,
The news of the renewed slaughter of 6 European Wolf Canis lupus lupus individuals once
again demonstrates Norway's stubborn self-exclusion from the family of modern democratic states, which are attempting to retain
as much biodiversity as possible for future generations, in an increasingly industrialised and consumption-orientated world.
This unilateral action on your part, which affects the fauna of Scandinavia and Europe
as a whole, is met with disbelief from both experts and the general public alike in many countries worldwide.
We urge you to stop this cull immediately. We also appeal to you to reverse
your present policy of culling natural predators (e.g. bears, wolves, wolverines and eagles) which have an important function
in the balance of nature; and which are an important part of our remaining but shrinking common reserve of European birds
and mammals.
In the hope that in the future you will revise your destructive environmental policies, and cease
the needless killing of animals who also have a right to share our environment, we remain,
yours sincerely,
(Name and address)
