New twist as lynx hunting temporarily halted in Sweden

The Court of Appeal has halted the hunt while awaiting a new legal review, a so-called inhibition.

"This is an important partial victory for the lynx and for legal certainty. Now we hope that the court will go all the way and stop the hunting that is against the law," says Isak Isaksson at the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation in a comment.

153 lynxes will be shot in this year's hunt. The hunt was appealed by, among others, the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, but the appeal was rejected by the Administrative Court on Thursday.

In Gävleborg, however, hunting was temporarily stopped by the Administrative Court because a quota for 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 lynxes can be females.