Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and the Baltics
Long marketed as a mosquito-free country to tourists, Iceland has stepped into the “modern age”. The Icelandic Institute of Natural History has confirmed on 20 October that three mosquitos were found in the past couple days. And, experts argue, if […]
As its final act, the exiting government of Iceland has given the green light for another five years of commercial whale hunt, until 2029. Only two other countries allow this kind of whale hunt: Norway and Japan. The Icelandic government […]
UPDATED 18 SEPTEMBER 2023 | The Swedish land usage authority (Jordbruksverket) has declared a massive 1000 square kilometres (620+ sq mi) as a no-go zone for jogging, hunting, picking berries and all other human activities in the forrest that are […]
The Swedish government wants to shoot wolves, saying there are too many of them. But the plans to have a licensed wolf hunt are based on numbers that the statistics of the country’s own ministry for rural affairs do not […]