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- Title
Favourable Conservation Status for Species: Examining the Habitats Directive's Key Concept through a Case Study of the Swedish Wolf.
- Authors
Epstein, Yaffa
- Abstract
One of the key issues in the current controversy over the hunting of wolves in Sweden is whether the wolf population has reached favourable conservation status (FCS). FCS is a legal concept, created and defined in law, but like many legal concepts within environmental law, can only be understood by reference to ecological concepts such as species viability. These ecological determinations in turn often require some sort of legal or policy judgment, such as how great an extinction risk is acceptable for a viable population. This article interrogates contested legal and ecological aspects of FCS and argues for how they might be applied to the Swedish wolf in potential litigation.
- Subjects
WILDLIFE conservation laws; WOLVES; SWEDEN. Environmental Protection Agency; EUROPEAN Commission; HABITAT conservation laws; EUROPEAN Union law; GOVERNMENT policy
- Publication
Journal of Environmental Law, 2016, Vol 28, Issue 2, p221
- ISSN
0952-8873
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1093/jel/eqw006