There are new faces leading the International Wolf Center’s Board of Directors. At its meeting in December, the Center’s board elected two new officers. The new chair of the Board of Directors is Judy Hunter. Hunter is a retired CEO of a Girl Scout Council. She became involved with the International Wolf Center after moving […]
From theconversation.com: The wolf is a generalist that can hunt both wild and domestic prey. This flexibility, together with stricter conservation laws and better habitat conditions, has allowed their populations and those of other European carnivores (bears, lynx and wolverines) to rebound and reclaim old territories across the continent. Click here for the full story.
From Star Tribune: BILLINGS, Mont. — A group of Democratic lawmakers on Thursday urged the Biden administration to enact emergency protections for gray wolves in the U.S. West in response to Republican-backed state laws that make it easier to kill the predators. Twenty-one U.S. senators led by New Jersey’s Cory Booker and Michigan’s Gary Peters […]
From Arizona Public Radio: Federal wildlife officials are proposing several changes to the recovery plan for endangered Mexican gray wolves in the Southwest. It comes after a federal judge ordered the agency to rewrite its plan to comply with federal law. KNAU’s Ryan Heinsius reports. The proposal from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removes […]
From EEnews.net: Rain, a filmmaker and executive director of the Global Indigenous Council, told E&E News that he and five other activists have been advised they can expect a “minimum” of 60 minutes in their Interior meeting on Friday morning. “We must not let state, provincial, and federal governments continue to define issues as ‘environmental’ […]
From Sciencenews.com: The enigmatic, now-extinct Falkland Islands wolf had human visitors on the remote archipelago up to 1,070 years ago. The find suggests that Indigenous people could have originally brought the foxlike creatures, also known as the warrah, to the islands. Click here for the full story.
13-year-old gray wolf euthanized Saturday night after his condition deteriorated quickly Contact: Chad Richardson, Communications Director Office: 763-233-7132 chad@wolf.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Denali, an ambassador wolf at the International Wolf Center in Ely, Minnesota, was euthanized at approximately 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 4. The 13-year-old gray wolf was born in 2008 at the Wildlife Science […]
From the New York Times: The state of Wisconsin on Wednesday authorized the killing of 300 wolves as part of a hunt this fall, far exceeding the recommendations of its own biologists for the once-protected species and drawing criticism from conservationists. In a 5-to-2 vote, the state’s Natural Resources Board cast aside the quota that […]
From helenair.com he majority of public comments submitted in response to proposed changes to Montana wolf hunting and trapping regulations opposed killing wolves, although those from Montanans were more evenly split. Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks reported roughly 25,000 public comments were submitted ahead of next week’s Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission meeting. About 19,000 comments were […]
From PikesPeakCourier With voter approval of Proposition 114 in the November election, Colorado Parks and Wildlife is tasked with restoring grey wolves to state’s Western Slope by the end of 2023. As part of the Grey Wolf Reintroduction initiative, CPW is required to get public input, and is holding public meetings to discuss it and […]
