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- Title
Law Abiding Citizens: On Popular Support for the Illegal Killing of Wolves.
- Authors
Krange, Olve; von Essen, Erica; Skogen, Ketil
- Abstract
Conflicts over wolf management are a stable feature of Norwegian public debate. In some segments of the population, nature management, and especially predator management, have a very low legitimacy. A strong expression of these controversies is the illegal killing of wolves, a practice sufficiently extensive to impact wolf population size. In several studies, the killing of wolves is interpreted as politically motivated resistance/crime of dissent. This study contributes to the research field by examining the support for such illegal actions. We ask if the Norwegian public find such illegal actions to be acceptable or not. Analysis shows that acceptance joins a broader pattern of controversies, expressed by phenomena such as xenophobia, climate change denial, anti-elitism, and low confidence in institutions working to preserve nature.
- Subjects
WOLVES; PREDATOR management; CLIMATE change skepticism; NATURE reserves
- Publication
Nature & Culture, 2022, Vol 17, Issue 2, p191
- ISSN
1558-6073
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/nc.2022.170204