Esitys Valtakunnallisilla Riistapäivillä 14.1.2020.

1. Managing moose, wolves and
people in the county of
Värmland
MARIA FALKEVIK, WILDLIFE MANAGER, THE COUNTY BOARD OF VÄRMLAND, 2020-01-14

2. or…
How much is too much and how
little is too little?
MARIA FALKEVIK, WILDLIFE MANAGER, THE COUNTY BOARD OF VÄRMLAND, 2020-01-14

3. This is Värmland

4. This is Värmland
Forestry
Hunting
Wolves
Sheep

5. Another controversial species in Värmland…

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

12. % of harvest goals reached by
moose management areas
Finnskoga-Dalby 77 75 81 90 97 102
Ljusnan 71 61 63 76 88 99
Finnskogen 101
Bergslagskanalen 74 73 73 92 103 91 96
Fryken-Glafsfjorden 82 74 61 77 82 85 83
Glaskogen 73 77 71 79 105 92 82
Klarälven-Fryken 72 65 60 78 94 89 90
Wermlandsberg 69 62 48 79 99 97 98
Vänerbygden 86 81 72 66 71 93 83
Vänern-Möckeln 95 94 83 78 85 96 90
Örten 82 80 79 83 83 94 73
Totalt 76 73 67 78 90 92 89

13. Source: Wikenros et al, 2019

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Sverige
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Wolfpacks and pairs Sweden

15. Wolfpacks and pairs per
county
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15
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Värmland Dalarna Örebro Gävleborg Västmanland Uppsala Stockholm V Götaland
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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?

17. Goals
Actions
Systematic
observations
Evaluation
Knowledge
Adaptive management – in theory…

18. Adaptive management – in reality…

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).