I live in a fairly rural area and while I can understand the feelings of animal lovers, am one myself, people need to understand the real world.
We have all sorts of varmits, coons, possums, rattlesnakes, coyotes, a few lynx and feral cats.
A few we can tolerate but sometimes we have to "thin the herd"
Of course we all, including Norwegians and Finns, all love animals, even the ones who are nuisances.
I really doubt the Norwegians and Finns wish to eradicate from the face of the earth, all their wolves, every last one of them.
As you mentioned, one has to "thin the herd" once in a while.
What freaks me is that here in Nebraska, even though our population (human) has doubled since 1890, there are six times--I repeat that, SIX times--the number of deer that there were, back in the frontier days.