
The Wolf Dividing Norway
Wolves have returned to Norway's forests, and with them a bitter split between conservationists who want the population protected and rural communities who say the predators are destroying their way of life. The film follows farmers who report losing large percentages of their sheep flocks to wolf attacks, alongside environmentalists pushing back against culls and hunting quotas meant to keep numbers down. Interviews on both sides lay out the practical stakes: grazing livestock in open country versus a species that nearly vanished from Norway and is only slowly recovering. Government wolf-management policy sits at the center of the dispute, with hunters, herders, and wildlife advocates each arguing the current balance is wrong in opposite directions. Rather than settling the argument, the film shows how deep and personal it has become in the communities living closest to the wolves.