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It's worth noting, with respect to the advice from Norwegian farmers, that Norwegian farmers have an incentive to push for high estimates of predation over other causes of loss, as they get compensation for loss due to predators.

That's not to say they don't lose animals to predators, but the estimates of the actual numbers have been fought over in Norway for decades.

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It's really not a big problem, Switzerland is much smaller and we have 140-180 lynx, around 80 Wolves and some Brown bears. Yes they are some losses, but with herd dogs not allot.

Part of the issue in Norway is that the sheep are not actively herded most of the summer. They get checked on now and again, but not continuously. The farmers basically want to avoid the cost by pushing up the proportion of losses that are due to predators that they get compensation for.

It is also worth noting that far more sheep die of sickness/exposure than the few that are taken by predators.

IIRC 100k sheep are lost and 20k of those are to predators.

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