Switzerland’s cantons can kill a total of 12 wolf packs. The Federal Office for the Environment has approved corresponding applications from five cantons. Only one application from Ticino to remove the entire pack in the Onsernone Valley was rejected.
In a press release issued on Tuesday, the federal office explained that there had not been any wolf kills in protected situations in the Onsernone Valley in the past 12 months. However, Ticino could shoot two-thirds of the pack’s young wolves. …
I mean I get that the farmers are scared for their animals but I feel like the decision came very quickly before we really had the chance to study the wolves behavior and then take more targeted action against them, I stead of just killing a bunch of them at once. It just feels more like an offensive reaction more than some kind of “population control”