> joking aside the Yellowstone phenomenon gets often cited. We have a long way to go in Europe (cough cough Switzerland, Austria) where the wolf by the rural co

> joking aside the Yellowstone phenomenon gets often cited. We have a long way to go in Europe (cough cough Switzerland, Austria) where the wolf by the rural community is still seen as a huge problem to the way of life (hunting and farming). 100% the same situation in Scandinavia. Wolves would also probably help with the wild Boar problem in Sweden. > Many Swedish farmers are affected by wild boar that cultivate arable land and eat crops. > According to an action plan from the Swedish Farmers' Association, LRF, this involves > damages of SEK 1.1 billion per year. https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2020-09-25-wild-boar-a-billion-problem-for-swedish-agriculture--%22there-is-nothing-left-to-thresh%22.B1G511lsSP.html https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2020-09-25-wild-boar-a-bil... > The main threat to wild boars are humans, but sometimes wild boar also fall prey to lynx, > bears and wolves but only the later is of greater importance. In some areas in Italy for > example wild boars are the main prey to wolves, but since the distribution of wild boar and > wolves are not really overlapping in Sweden this has not been demonstrated in Sweden yet. In > future, if the wolves are spreading southward and wild boars continue to spread up north, we > may see this happen in Sweden as well. http://files.webb.uu.se/uploader/271/BIOKand-13-025-Duck-Lovisa-Sammanfattning.pdf http://files.webb.uu.se/uploader/271/BIOKand-13-025-Duck-Lov...