Swedish Monster on Endangered Species List

STOCKHOLM, Sweden
(AP) – A government watchdog has asked a regional council why it placed
a mythical monster on Sweden’s endangered species list.

The Parliamentary Ombudsman’s office in Stockholm also asked the environment
court in the Jaemtland province of central Sweden to explain why a businessman,
who said he wanted to raise monster babies, was denied permission to search for
its purported eggs.

"During a routine inspection of the environment court in Jaemtland
recently, we came across a decision that attracted our interest,” Parliamentary
Ombudsman
Nils-Olof Berggren told the AP on Monday. “It was the local environment court,
as a superior instance to the regional council, that had turned down an application
from a man who wanted to search for and hatch the monster’s eggs, probably
believing it was just a joke.”

However, Berggren also found that there was an actual decision from 1986, placing
the monster under protection.

from the AP