The Conservation Performance Payment (CPP) scheme in Sweden, recognized for its innovative approach to wildlife coexistence, is facing significant challenges due to frozen government funding. Established in 1996, the CPP incentivizes communities to coexist with predators like wolverines, but recent research from the University of York reveals alarming declines in wolverine populations in northern Sweden. The study indicates that wolverine reproduction in Norrbotten, once accounting for two-thirds of national births, has fallen to less than one-third. Payments to reindeer herders have stagnated at 200,000 SEK since 2002, losing half their value due to inflation, while the Sámi Parliament suggests a necessary increase to 480,000 SEK. Additionally, climate change has altered snow conditions, complicating wolverine tracking and leading to potential inaccuracies in population data. Dr. Hanna Pettersson emphasizes that without adapting funding to rising costs, the burden of conservation will fall on marginalized communities, posing a warning for global conservation efforts.