https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Norway in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Animal rights activists in Norway have begun boycotting local sheep meat in protest at a new round of licensed wolf hunts planned for this winter. https://www.thelocal.no/20180820/wolf-campaigners-boycott-sheep-meat-in-norway Tue, 21 Aug 2018 00:30:22 +0200 wolf-campaigners-boycott-sheep-meat-in-norway Plummeting numbers of elk in Norway’s Elgregion zone could be a threat to the country’s hunting season, according to hunters. https://www.thelocal.no/20170926/norway-elk-hunt-threatened-by-wolves-hunters Tue, 26 Sep 2017 14:14:37 +0200 norway-elk-hunt-threatened-by-wolves-hunters Over 11,000 applications to hunt wolves in Norway were received in 2015 despite the animal's dwindling numbers in the wild, official figures show. https://www.thelocal.no/20151221/thousands-of-norwegians-apply-for-wolf-hunting-licences Mon, 21 Dec 2015 10:04:59 +0100 thousands-of-norwegians-apply-for-wolf-hunting-licences A group of hunters in far northern Norway shot dead two elk only to realise seconds later that they had been shooting through the fence into a zoo. https://www.thelocal.no/20151015/hunters-shoot-elk-in-zoo Thu, 15 Oct 2015 23:35:20 +0200 hunters-shoot-elk-in-zoo UPDATED: Norway's parliament has voted to scrap a controversial subsidy for seal hunting, potentially spelling the end of the much-criticized activity, a lawmaker told AFP on Friday. https://www.thelocal.no/20141212/norway-scraps-controversial-seal-hunting-subsidy Fri, 12 Dec 2014 13:07:00 +0100 norway-scraps-controversial-seal-hunting-subsidy A team of Swedish hunters who spent the night gripped by fear after seeing shadows they thought were a gang of menacing bears, woke to find nothing more than three runaway Norwegian cows. https://www.thelocal.no/20130917/swedes-scared-by-runaway-norwegian-cows Tue, 17 Sep 2013 11:25:00 +0200 swedes-scared-by-runaway-norwegian-cows A record number of wolves have been shot in Norway this year, leading conservationists to call for stricter guidelines on killing the animals. https://www.thelocal.no/20130730/record-number-of-wolves-killed-this-year Tue, 30 Jul 2013 12:23:00 +0200 record-number-of-wolves-killed-this-year Norway’s environment ministry has given hunters the task of curbing the country’s lynx population when the hunting season starts on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.no/20120131/quotas-set-for-norway-lynx-hunt Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:12:54 +0100 quotas-set-for-norway-lynx-hunt