"elk" in Spanish

The fact is that elk hunting is extremely widespread in Sweden and Finland.

25 % of elk have to be condemned and in the worst hit areas more or less all roedeer.

I thank Mr De Rossa for his assurance that this report does not and cannot refer to deer and elk management in Europe.

Tens of thousands of people hunt elk, and the meat they obtain is an important contribution to their households.

Has the Commission assessed the effect of the proposals on reindeer husbandry and elk hunting in Sweden and Finland?

I thank them for having come to Elk.

Do the requirements relating to hunting, for example of elk, also cover the treatment of meat for own consumption?

I thank Mr De Rossa for his assurance that this report does not and cannot refer to deer and elk management in Europe.

Elk, Tuesday, 8 June 1999

in Elk, his Auxiliary Bishop Edward, and also the clergy present here in

If these rules were to be applied to meat consumed by people within their own households, this would constitute a bureaucratic disaster for elk hunting.

That is an extremely emotive issue, and I think we have arrived at a good compromise which both pheasant and elk hunters will be able to live with.

I await the day when the United States of America or Australia wake up to the fact that there is bullfighting in Spain and elk hunting in Finland.

Regulated Swedish elk hunting and the illegal hunting of apes and other wild animals threatened with extinction occupy quite separate worlds.

Swedish elk stocks are stable, while hunting is carried on in such a way that the species is not in decline, still less threatened with extinction.

Let us also assume that in your view it is a very economical model even though it does not quite pass the elk test in some safety aspects.

I live in the middle of the forest in Sweden and should scarcely dare come home at all if some elk hunter had got the idea that I had banned elk hunting.

Otherwise, an unfortunate situation would have arisen in which hunting restrictions and animal protection would have applied to meat from all wild animals, including Swedish species such as elk.

I cordially greet the members of the Lithuanian community living in the territory of the Diocese of Elk who are present at this Holy Mass, and also the pilgrims who have come from Lithuania.

If we do not hunt elk every year, the elk population grows rapidly, the number of people killed in road accidents rises and there is a considerable increase in damage to the forests.