The SHA has collected hunting statistics since 1936. The statistics can be viewed on graphs on their website. The graphs show the ups and downs for the harvest of the different species. Today the harvest of moose is about 100,000 per year and deer about 200,000. In Sweden they do not allow the numbers of predators to escalate out of control. That are the bears, the wolves and the red fox. They have some 2000 bears and 100 wolves. The number of foxes are substantially higher. The fox takes the lambs of the small deer, and is in general helping to control the number of deers. As it can be seen of the graphs, in the 1980-ties a sickness in the foxes reduced the number of foxes with the result that the deer population exploded. The deer harvest had to be increased to about 400,000 per year, just to control the population. Now, the deer harvest is back to normal and so are the harvest of the red fox which is about 60,000 per year. The SHA is truly promoting the Sustainable Use of Resources.

In British Columbia we have some of the best wilderness on the North American continent. However, wildlife management is completely different from the Swedish model. There is no hunters association. A politician is the chief wildlife manager. Wildlife biologists are hired by the minister. There is a provincial Wildlife Federation which seems not to have much impact on wildlife management. With wildlife management being all political, the anti-hunting and animals right activists have a big impact. These activist, the locals, the British and the Germans, are developing the public perception about hunting apparently without anybody in the government or the WF opposing them.