This week we got some stories about the high air quality in Sweden, plus the Bears and Lynx that live in our forests.
1. The snow is melting and the Bears are waking up earlier than usual.
Here’s an article about it:
https://www.thelocal.se/20190313/video-swedens-brown-bears-awake-early-from-hibernation
2. On a more sombre note the Swedish Lynx hunt started and finished. In the county we live (Vasterbotten) the hunt was stopped after just a few days as the quota of Lynx shot had been met. This follows the pattern with the latest Moose and Bear hunting seasons. Locally, both hunts ended quickly as the number of animals allowed to be shot was achieved quickly.
https://www.thelocal.se/20190228/swedish-hunters-told-they-may-shoot-67-lynx-this-year
3. Meanwhile, Sweden had an acknowledgement about the clean air we are lucky to live in. The nordic countries and Canada have the cleanest air in the world.
https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/who_finland_has_the_worlds_cleanest_air/10188554