Due to the many attacks, it was decided to protect the genetically important male wolf G93-23, which was the first generation offspring of a wolf that immigrated from Finland-Russia. In April this year, it was shot in the Söderåsen area.
Now, game cameras installed by the Skåne County Administrative Board show that at least two puppies were born in the area, and DNA analysis that has been done of a droppings sample shows that the cubs of G93-23 were born.
– The DNA analysis shows that the cubs have the bitch in the Söderåsen district as mother and G93-23 as father. This confirms the theory we have had, that after a long migration with many attacks in southern Sweden, G93-23 settled in the Söderåsen area, says wildlife officer David Börjesson, in a press release.
“Important for the Scandinavian wolf tribe”
The county board’s inventory runs between October and March next year, and David Börjesson does not rule out that there are more wolves in the area.
– We have documented two yearlings and one adult wolf, but there may be more, he says.
Will the wolf cubs seen now also be genetically important?
– They are important to the Scandinavian wolf tribe. They want to reduce the degree of inbreeding that exists in the Scandinavian wolf population, and then wolves that migrate in and reproduce are important. But when it comes to the classification of whether they are genetically important, that is a matter for the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, says David Börjesson.