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ACTION ALERT: Save Sweden Wolves!!
Animals  (tags: sweden, wolf massacre, organized, wolves, killed, slaughter, protection )

Simone
- 12 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
The Swedish Enviromental Protection Agency is calling for a wolf cull. They say the wolf population as of last winter was between 182 & 217. They want to limit the wolf population to 210 animals for the next 5 years. They say the main reason for this
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Sweden Gives Green Light to Controversial Wolf Hunt
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, wolves, hunt, Sweden, killing, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 15 days ago - thelocal.se
Hunters in Sweden will be allowed to take aim at wolves for the first time in 45 years following a Riksdag decision to control the predators' population, wildlife officials said on Wednesday.
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Taking Aim: First Wolf Hunt in 45 Years Expected In Sweden
Animals  (tags: sad news, wolf hunt, sweden, wolves slaughtered, 45 years span, hunting permits, tragedy )

Simone
- 15 days ago - ecoworldly.com
For the first time in 45 years, a wolf hunt is expected to take place in Sweden. In October, the Swedish parliament made the decision to limit the wolf population to 210 animals and will issue hunting permits in areas where the wolves have reproduced in
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ACTION ALERT: Bunnies Burned to Keep Sweden Warm This Winter!!!
Animals  (tags: sweden, bunnies, rabbits, slaughtered, massacred, bizarre, cruel )

Simone
- 60 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
The decision to use Stockholms rabbit cadavers as bioenergy to warm Swedes living in Vormland doesn't sit well with Stockholm-based animal rights activists. Those who support the culling of rabbits surely think its good to use the bodies for a good
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Sweden Burns Bunnies to Generate Electricity--and Outrage
Animals  (tags: animals, bunnies, electricity, Sweden, environment, killing, protection, suffering )

Cher
- 63 days ago - blog.peta.org
Little known fact about Stockholm: Thousands of rabbits are shot and killed in the city's Kungsholmen neighborhood every year. To up the gross quotient, the city has taken to freezing the bunnies' bodies and shipping them off to a power plant, where
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Moose Under Fire in Sweden: Shoot to Kill and Cull Campaign
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, cull, moose, Sweden, habitat, protection, wildlife, killing )

Cher
- 106 days ago - ecoworldly.com
Officials in Sweden have introduced a shoot to kill and cull campaign in an effort to reduce the amount of vehicle accidents and damage to forests due to the growing number of moose in the country. 42 people have been killed and almost 2,000 people have
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Vicious New Threat Emerges to Humpback Whales.-ACTION TO TAKE-BlueVoice Reporting From the IWC
Animals  (tags: Vicious New Threat Emerges to Humpback W, Denmark, Greenland, Sweden )

Elderberr
- 179 days ago - bluevoice.org
Denmark is asking for the right for Greenland to hunt and kill fifty humpback whales. Sweden is supporting this request. THIS IS TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE. HUMPBACKS ARE NOT FOOD.
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Zoo Chimp Plots Stone Throwing Attacks
Animals  (tags: sweden, zoolife, wildlife, wild animals, chimp, stone throwing plot )

Jacquelin
- 284 days ago - dsc.discovery.com
If non-human primates could be arrested, Santino the chimp might be behind jail bars for throwing stones and handcrafted weapons at zoo visitors, since a new study found his cleverly orchestrated attacks were premeditated. The discovery, published in t
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Ikea Slammed By Animals Rights Charity for Selling Reindeer Salami to Christmas Shoppers
Animals  (tags: sweden, ikea, animaladvocates, AnimalCruelty, reindeer, selling reindeer salami, sadness, suffering, slaughter, protection )

Jacquelin
- 380 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
Furniture giant Ikea has been criticised by an animal welfare charity for selling reindeer meat. Viva! is calling on the company to withdraw its reindeer salami and slices from their Swedish stores because they say the animals suffer cruel exploitation a
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Swedish Protests to Target Mulesing in Australia
Animals  (tags: sweden, australia, sheep, mulesing, AnimalWelfare, AnimalCruelty, abuse, protection, sadness, wool industry, embassy, animal advocates )

Jacquelin
- 639 days ago - nzherald.co.nz
Animal rights activists will stage a demonstration outside the Australian Embassy in Sweden to protest against mulesing in the wool industry. Members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and Animal Rights Sweden dressed as farmers and
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Swedish Company Bans Australian Wool
Animals  (tags: australia, sweden, animals, sheep, wool, animalrights, animaladvocates, peta, ban, animalwelfare, AnimalCruelty )

Jacquelin
- 670 days ago - thedaily.com.au
One of the world's largest clothing retailers has slapped a ban on Australian wool after pressure from a US animal rights group. Sweden-based H&M, with 1,500 stores in 28 countries, will source wool from nations other than Australia after the People fo
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Sweden's Reindeer Under Threat
Animals  (tags: Sweden, reindeer, cold climate )

June
- 1024 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
In Sweden's Arctic circle, reindeer herds are under threat from exceptionally cold weather.
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