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Probably an AI filter that auto assigns articles involving guns as American lol /s
"Farmers say more than 340 sheep were killed in 2021 by a Swedish wolf population estimated at about 460. The predators, which in the 1960s were thought to be extinct in Sweden, are also resented by hunters, who say the dogs they use to track and drive deer and elk are regularly attacked."
"However, the scale of this year’s planned cull – only 203 wolves have been shot in total in Sweden in the 12 years since authorised hunting resumed – has alarmed conservationists." >

340 sheep for 460 wolves sounds either like a load of bullshit (and they've got a feral dog problem) or like they are crowding wolves with completely unguarded livestock.
Like, yeah, they are going to take sheep after sheep if you can't even put up an electric fence and use dogs. >

They need to use donkeys, too. They’re cheap and lethal. >

I always liked donkeys but a few years ago I saw some pics on how they deal with coyotes and they instantly became my favourites. 
Donkeys rule >

Whats the solution to the problem of overpopulation? Cullings? >

Free birth control globally for starters >

Yes and.... 
Actual sex education everywhere with all birth control options and PiV alternatives presented. Full consequences of child birth and rearing presented in a comprehensive manner. Religion be damned. 
End to child marriage. 
Increased equality for women so that they have agency, education and opportunities. They are not property and have a the ability to may and educated decision about their on reproductive lives.
Abortion is healthcare and all people have access to affordable quality Healthcare. 
Work to eliminate the poverty cycle. 
Quality elder care and welfare should be guaranteed so that parents do not have children as their own personal safety net. >

Deregulate adoption >

Is it overregulated now, yes. Should all regulation be removed no. 
So reduce regulation and increase follow up and and research, and again get religion the hell out of it. 
However, when you decrease the birth rate through education and alternative opportunities, the amount of children needing adoption decreases as well. >

So then birthed babies should be regulated too by that logic >

I wholeheartedly would love for parents to be regulated before being able to give birth... but there is a metric shit ton of systematic racism, sexism, enforced poverty, and imposed false religious morality that needs to be fixed before we should entertain that thought. 
The same issues affect the adoption system. Granted my experience is with the American foster system, not adoption, so that colors my opinions, but there is a level of regulation that needs to be present. >

It's not going to be easy, but doing nothing fails many children. >

Agreed. 
It is an insanely complex situation. Everything in this thread is. None of this is going to happen overnight, in a year, or a generation. But we need to start with the foundations otherwise any changes will fall down.
I think the foundation for both over population and one of its offspring issues, the adoption systems, is education. About birth control, abortion, alternatives for  for futures outside of motherhood, adoption as an alternative to birth and not only a fall back. Secondly and together there needs to be more support (financial, healthcare, and social) for children, childfree women, families of all kinds. 
This will lay the foundation for the foundation. Baby steps will make the change. >

Largest ever cull so far... >

Why did this have the flair “us news” on the news section