From CHPost.DK in Denmark: Researchers are concerned by recent findings that mortality rates amongst Danish wolves are a staggering 10 times above normal. A new study by Aarhus University (AU) entitled ‘Where have all the young wolves gone?’ calculates the current life-expectancy of a Danish wolf to be just two years. Almost half the population have disappeared […]
From the Union-Bulletin in Washington: There are a minimum of 178 wolves in Washington, according to new information from state and tribal biologists published in late April. Washington’s wolf population grew at least 24% between 2019 and 2020, despite the death of 16 wolves to legal hunting, lethal removal in response to conflict and natural […]
From PublicNewsService.org: EAU CLAIRE, Wis. — Opposition to wolf hunts in Wisconsin is becoming more visible, and not only in public hearings or on social media. Drivers might soon notice how some hunters feel about wolves. A new coalition, calling itself Hunters for Wolves, is behind a trio of billboards installed along roadways in northern Wisconsin. […]
From Wisconsin Public Radio: More than 100 scientists have signed a letter asking the Biden administration to restore federal protections for the gray wolf. The Trump administration announced last fall that it would remove the animal from the endangered species list across most of the country beginning in January, prompting lawsuits from environmental and wildlife groups to restore the […]
From the Southern Environmental Law Center: CHAPEL HILL, N.C.— Red wolf captive breeding facilities today announced the release of four rare red wolves into the wild in North Carolina, after conservation groups won a federal court ruling in January that required the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to prepare a plan to release captive red wolves into […]
From National Geographic: Montana is making it easier to kill wildlife in the state, with a suite of bills and new laws that threatens to undermine 30 years of wolf recovery and establish new hunting standards that even many hunters say is too permissive. New state laws will allow hunters to kill an unlimited number of wolves, to […]
From WUWM.com: Perhaps no creature on the Wisconsin landscape elicits more extreme reactions than the gray wolf. The once nearly extinct population has rebounded, and while some believe there should be no wolf hunting season, a 2011 Wisconsin state law requires an annual harvest unless the wolf is under federal protection. The debate has intensified […]
From phys.org: A young male gray wolf crossed into far Northern California early this month—joining another wolf that trekked into the state in late January and made an epic journey south. The latest wolf to arrive in California—called OR-103—was outfitted with a GPS collar in Deschutes County, Oregon. He entered northeastern Siskiyou County on May 4, according […]
From Emerging Europe: The wolf is set to become a fully protected species in Slovakia after the country implemented a total ban on hunting. The hunting of wolves will be illegal in Slovakia from June 1, after the country finally adopted new rules that bring it into line with European Union guidelines. Click here for […]
From The Daily Sentinel in Grand Junction, Colorado: Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser is urging the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission to do a lot more than just include Western Slope residents in public hearings over reintroduction of the gray wolf. Because that reintroduction is to happen on the Western Slope only, Weiser also wants […]
