The European Commission has now proposed to extend the ban on lead in ammunition. The problem for Sweden is that at the same time the EU seems to regard all of Sweden as wetland, in other words would the consequence of such a radical decision for the Swedish hunting community be almost a total ban. The background to the ban is the lobbyism of various environmental organizations engaged themselves in for decades. The main stakeholder is the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, that has influenced government after government in Sweden (how much money they spend each year on lobbying only in Sweden we do not know, they are not transparent) and Brussels, as I showed in the previous article....
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