Swedish wolf hunt 'an abuse of science': expert

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"The last wolf hunt in Sweden is an abuse of science," said Guillaume Chapron, an ecologist with experience of wolves in France and Sweden.

Chapron has since 2007 been employed as an assistant professor at Grimsö research station in Bergslagen north of Stockholm and has thus closely followed Swedish wolf policy in recent years.

In the letter to Science, he dissects specifically the scientific arguments used to justify this year's hunt.

The search was described as targeted and selective, as the idea was to shoot 16 wolves from the most inbred pairs, in order to decrease inbreeding in the population.