6. Regional wildlife management
The 21 County administrative boards (CAB):
• are authorities directly under the
government
• take guidance and funding from national
authorities as the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA)
• cooperate in three large carnivore
management areas
7. Regional wildlife management
Stakeholder participation and co-
management groups:
• The Wildlife Management delegation
• Moose management groups
Other parties with official tasks:
• The Swedish Hunters’ Association
• Swedish Forest Agency
• Wildlife Damage Centre
8. Wildlife management
Administration
- Hunting areas for
moose and red deer
- Cooperation and
dialogue with
stakeholder groups.
- Managent plan for large
carnivores.
- Auditing moose
management plans and
follow up of results.
- Subsidies to preventive
measures and
compensation for
damages.
- Protective hunting.
- Licensed hunting.
9. Field work
- Monitoring of large
carnivores (tracking,
DNA, cameras)
- Consulting on damage
prevention, conflict
management,
documentation, problem
animal management
(large carnivores and
large grazing birds)
- Prevention of illegal
killing of wildlife
10. Providing knowledge
- Providing and analysing
monitoring results and
statistics
- Providing templates for
management plans and
applications
- Facilitation of
participation in
monitoring
- Participation in research
projects
11. Moose harvest / km2 1995-
2018
Värmland
Source: Wikenros et al, 2019
15. Wolfpacks and pairs per
county
0
5
10
15
20
25
Värmland Dalarna Örebro Gävleborg Västmanland Uppsala Stockholm V Götaland
S
T
T
W
X
U
Värmland
16. Management challenges
• Decision making on ”the best available
data”, when not making decisions also
have consequences.
• How do we know what actually works?
• How to reach a common, fact-based
worldview?
19. What we are up to…
• New management plans för large carnivores, moose and red
deer. Preparing for multi species management…
• Developing evidence based working methods for stakeholder
participation and co-management groups. Implementing social
science…
• Stepping up to the challenge of illegal hunting of wolves. Looking
into values and human behaviour, and finding out what works…
• Validating our craftmanship of helping people to cope with fear of
large carnivores. What is best practise and does it help?
• How to affect forest damages by moose hunting, when the
migrating moose are in Norway during the main hunting period?
Working with the Interreg project GRENSEVILT.
20. We need to focus on this guy!
And we need to be more
systematic in the adaptive
wildlife management!
21. Thank you for your attention!
Photos by Anders Tedeholm (the white
moose) and Fredrik Wilde (the rest).