Kuwait
Select a Location
Kuwait at a glance
Little is known about the wolves here.
This paper does give some background on the population of wolves in Kuwait:
“As evidenced by quotations in the Holy Qur’an, the wolf (Canis lupus Linnaeus, 1758) coexisted with man in the area of Palestine for thousands of years and was well known as a predator, as we know it from the story of Prophet Yusuf (Joseph). The Reverend Henry Baker Tristram (1884) stated in his reference book “The survey of western Palestine. The fauna and flora of Palestine” that the wolf is found in every part of Palestine. Wolves still live in over half of Palestine, but have disappeared during the last 70 years from the more densely settled areas. It appears, however, that in some areas their population has increased recently due to easily available food from garbage dumps (Mendelssohn 1982, Khalaf-von Jaffa 1990). ”
Species Information
Species
Common Name: gray wolf
Latin Name: Canis lupus
Subspecies
Common Name: Arabian wolf
Latin Name: Canis lupus arabs
Current Wolf Population, Trend, Status
Number of wolves: Unknown
Population trend: Unknown
Legal protection: Unknown
This page was last updated in 2020.
