At a press conference with Rural Affairs Minister Peter Kullgren (KD), a partial report was presented by investigator Mats Wiberg. He says that the investigation has conducted surveys and interviews to get a picture of the problem and notes that hunting sabotage is "fairly rare".
But there is still a dark figure. We see an area where the problem is greater than others, and that is wolf hunting, says Mats Wiberg.
However, the problem is not so great that new laws are proposed. "Current legislation is generally sufficient to ensure that hunting can be carried out without disruptions", it says. Instead, a few minor measures are proposed, such as tightening secrecy and changes to police registry management.
Of the changes that investigator Wiberg believes will have the greatest significance is that it will become easier to conduct protective hunting, for example, on deer and elk, to limit damage to crops and newly planted forests.
You can have large parts of your crops eaten away if you have too high a concentration of deer, says Peter Kullgren.
The proposals in the investigation are proposed to come into force on July 1, 2026.
