Sweden’s 400 wolves

Killing never protects wild life
Thats a misnomer that I
Need to put into the ring
No wild soul must die
How pointless man un kind can be
To suggest this is to say
Under some temporary ruling
We must make them pay

A 400 population
Who have fought their way back
Extinct back in the seventies
Despite every attack
Their number slowly growing
Threateningly so
Worrying the hunters
And their dogs
I have you know

On the hunting dogs
And game animals
That wolves would see as prey
Its a lack of understanding
That surfaces today
Reduction of a species
Who is indigenous
And should be
Always given preference
Over man
Or we shall see

Significant changes otherwise
The the environments abroad
Isolation and inbreeding
Is something they can afford
They are powerful and committed
In their environment for they
Are what Sweden needs the hunters
Feel them
Which now is the way

Forward wolves set futures
Hunters cause despair
Imbalance and go against
The mother everywhere

Be prudent be swedish
Wolves draw with natures brush
They have taken on their future
Without the need to rush
Forward to destruction
Of habitats for they
Are children of the greatest mother
And should not be made to pay

Hunters are irrelevant
At the bottom of the pile
Be thoughtful to our wild friends
Who will soon reconcile
Who will create a balance
In their instinctive role
For they are wild and have a vision
Which is never to control

Stay your hand and the promise
Is a kingdom of great worth
Who looked after its children
And so protected the earth

Copy posted on swedish embassy facebook site
Copy sent to Anders Jansen who e mailed me for my ideas
Copy on blog as above
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Copy on swedish embassy twitter
Copy to Independant newspaper
Copy to the environment commission in europe
Added as comments on film
Sent copy to the guardian

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