Prime minister, Erna Solberg and the Secretariat of the Bern Convention: Stop Norway’s plan to slaughter our wolves/Stopp utryddelsen av våre ulver

Bygdefolk for R. started this petition to Prime minister, Erna Solberg and the Secretariat of the Bern Convention started this petition to

Thanks to all of you, we reached 35.954 signatures and they were delivered to the Norwegian Parlament, Prime minister, Environmental minister and to The Bern Convention Committee. Will it manage to save the wolves? We don't know yet - but we hope that you all will keep up the pressure on the Norwegian government and Parlament - all in your own way.



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And last, but very most - THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION and for being one of the close to 36,000 signers of the "Petition campaign for the wolf in Norway"! Thank you!



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Petition text:

Please help us stop Norway’s plan to kill the last remaining wolves in Norway. In 2013 there were only 32 wolves left, and 12 were shot. In 2014 13 wolves were killed! In addition the scientists report that a significant number of wolves are killed through poaching each year. The recent estimate is that there is now between 28-32 wolves in Norway.There is no time to lose - Sign this petition to stop them hunting down our last wolves!



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We want the political parties of Norway to know that their policy is utterly wrong and a gruesome one, which are not supported by the vast majority of the Norwegian population or by the world. We want them to realize that the wolves are important for the enviroment, and that the way they act now, is not the will of Norwegians, but a very small group of hunters and sheepfarmers. And we want them to change the law and the predator settlement (Rovviltforliket) the politicians are hiding behind now. Help us save the wolves from extinction!

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Hjelp oss å stoppe Norges plan om å drepe de siste gjenværende ulvene i Norge. I 2013 var det bare 32 ulver igjen, og 12 ble skutt. I 2014 ble 13 skutt! I tillegg sier forskerne at et betydelig antall ulver drepes gjennom tjuvjakt, hvert år. Nylige estimat viser at de nå finnes mellom 28- 32 ulver i Norge. Det er ingen tid å miste – skriv under på denne underskriftskampanjen - for å stoppe dem fra å utrydde våre siste ulver!



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Vi vil at politikerne skal innse at ulvene er viktig for den norske naturen, og at måten de håndterer våre ulver på nå, ikke er innenfor nordmenns syn på hvordan Norge skal ta vare på sin ulvebestand. Vi vil ha dem til å endre loven og rovviltforliket som politikerne benytter ved en hver anledning, til å gjemme seg bak. Hjelp oss å redde ulvene fra den totale utryddelse i vår norske fauna.Norway's has an image as a broadminded, liberal, green nation. And we love to show off the country's natural beauty and astonishing wildlife. But while Wolves are very popular in Norway: surveys suggest that around 80% of the public - in both urban and rural areas - want to keep them at current or higher numbers, the dominant voices are those who belong to a small but powerful minority and suggests that the sensibilities of Norway's current political class are no more sophisticated than those of the frontiersmen of the wild west in the late 19th century.Nothing we have learnt about wolves over the past few decades - the marvels of their social structure, the very low risk they present to people and even to most livestock, the remarkable extent to which they shape the ecosystem, allowing other species to flourish - has altered attitudes among the hard core of people determined to exterminate them.Every year some 2 million sheep are released into forests and mountains of Norway without supervision. Around 1,500 of them - as a maximum estimate - are killed by wolves. The farmers are richly compensated for these killings.Far more sheep - some 100,000 - die for other reasons: falling into crevasses, drowning, infectious diseases, being hit by trains. But as has happened in so many countries across so many centuries, the wolf is seen by some landowners as encapsulating everything that's wrong with the world. It is, whatever the evidence might say, perceived as a bundle of concentrated evil, which must be contained and destroyed if humankind is to emerge from the darkness of the past.Politics in Norway tend to be local in character. For people who possess an almost religious aversion to wolves, the persistence of the species is an election issue. But those who like wolves tend to vote as most people do, on issues such as the economy, tax and, perhaps, broader environmental policy.At the latest summit on the Convention on Biological Diversity, Norway agreed a strategic plan to halt biodiversity loss. Almost immediately afterwards it announced the meeting with the Swedes, whose purpose, as far as some political parties are concerned, seems to be to extirpate the wolf.Already, the situation of predators in Norway is grim. Just under 5% of the country has been designated a "wolf zone", in which the animals are allowed to exist. But only three litters a year are permitted: once three pairs of wolves have bred, all the rest can be shot. There are currently just 25 wolves in the country. The hunting quota for this winter is 13. More than a century ago, before state bounties were paid for the killing of wolves, the population in Norway was more than 1,000.As the government is aware, 30 - or 13 - is far from being a genetically viable population. Even if it were allowed to remain at this level, the wolves would eventually die out through inbreeding. Right now the Environment department in Norway, allows all hunting of the wolf as soon as the wolf is crossing the 5% border and wolves are shot before they reach the 5% border, which means that there will never be a big enough wolf population to protect them against inbreed and they will certainly die out. Earlier this year an alpha female had a pup with her own son. The alpha male had disappeared (the wolf scientist suspects illegal hunting) earlier, and due to the extremely low number of wolves in Norway the alpha female wasn't able to find a new male to breed with. The government in Norway is disregarding all international agreements, as the Bern convention and is keeping the numbers of wolves in Norway at a low minimum. The numbers are so extremely low (about 25 Norwegian wolves) that scientist research (Skandulv) shows that the wolves in Norway and Scandinavia are suffering from grave genetic disorders due to inbreeding. We want to expose the myth of Scandinavian policy towards the natural world, which we have allowed ourselves to believe is better than that of almost any other nations. It is striking that across the Balkans, eastern Europe and Germany, the protection of wildlife and the readiness to allow the number of large predators to rise is far more advanced than in Norway, Sweden and Finland.The Wildlife Act in Norway stated that predators must be under the direct attacks on livestock or person before it can be killed, or have done "damage of significance on livestock or reindeer" before it can be granted permission to kill the wolf. The Wildlife Act is now changed and the amendment involves a legal basis for the killing of wolves without demonstrable damage caused. We want the political parties of Norway to know that their policy is utterly wrong and a gruesome one, which are not supported by the vast majority of the Norwegian population or by the world. We want them to realize that the wolves are important for the environment , and that the way they act now, is not the will of Norwegians, but a very small group of hunters and sheepfarmers. And we want them to change the law and the predator settlement (Rovviltforliket) the politicians are hiding behind now. Help us save the wolves from extinction!Why wolves are vital to the delicate balance of the forest ecosystem - See more at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PagO3gmwmA0For more information regarding numbers of predators, see the official Norwegian page: www.rovdata.no BFR er en forening for de som vil ta vare på våre rovdyr og rovfugler. www.bfrnorge.no. Bli medlem og støtt oss i kampen for en "naturlig natur". Følg oss også på Facebook: www.facebook.com/bfrnorgeThanks to George Monbiot for allowing us to use his text from http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2012/nov/20/norway-predators-wolves. Photo: Torbjørn Pehrsen