The Swedish Society for Nature Conservation will appeal to the Administrative Court of Appeal in Sundsvall and request that the hunt be stopped pending a new legal review. The hunt will begin on March 1.
"We regret that the court gives the green light for a hunt that violates both EU law and Swedish hunting legislation," says Beatrice Rindevall, chairwoman of the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, in a press release.
153 lynxes will be shot in this year's licensed hunt, a sharp increase from last year. However, in Gävleborg, the hunt was temporarily stopped because a quota on the maximum proportion of females among the 20 animals that can be shot had not been introduced. The County Administrative Board has now decided that a maximum of 7 of the 20 lynxes can be females.
