From Mongabay.com: The forest officials of Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich district breathed a sigh of relief when they captured five wolves from a pack of six, which has been under scrutiny for recent animal attacks on people, mostly children. “The good news is that there haven’t been any attacks reported in the past week,” Shaheer Khan, […]
From Buckrail: UNITED STATES — National outcry after Daniel, Wyoming resident Cody Roberts ran over and possessed an injured female wolf on Feb. 29, has led to federal lawmakers pursuing new legislation that would prohibit the intentional killing of wolves, coyotes and other wildlife with a snowmobile on federal lands. The Snowmobiles Aren’t Weapons (SAW) Act […]
From AP News: BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration on Friday asked an appeals court to revive a Trump-era rule that lifted remaining Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in the U.S. If successful, the move would put the predators under state oversight nationwide and open the door for hunting to resume in the Great […]
From 9News: DENVER — Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) went outside the United States to secure a new source for gray wolves in its second year of reintroduction efforts, the agency said on Friday. Colorado will get up to 15 wolves from the B.C. Ministry of Water, Lands and Resource Stewardship in British Columbia, Canada. The wolves […]
From Char-koosta News: POLSON – The Department of the Interior recently announced the recipients of Tribal Wildlife Grants. The Tribal Wildlife Grants Program is administered by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the program annually solicits project proposals from tribal fish and wildlife programs for funding consideration. The proposals are competitively reviewed by […]
From Sky-Hi News: Another of the male wolves reintroduced to Colorado has died in Grand County. This marks the third wolf death since Colorado Parks and Wildlife released 10 gray wolves in December 2023 and the second mortality this month. The wildlife agency received a mortality signal from the GPS collar on wolf 2307 on Monday, Sept. […]
From The Sopris Sun: Advocating for healthy public lands and wildlife is at the heart of the Western Watersheds Project (WWP). The organization started in 1993, then the Idaho Watersheds Project, as a form of citizen protest to ranching practices in Lake Creek, Idaho. WWP’s work is done through a lens of maintaining and restoring […]
From Cowboy State Daily: While Wyoming ponders a legislative response to the abuse and killing of a wolf in Daniel that sparked nationwide outrage, an animal welfare group is pushing a bi-partisan bill for a federal ban chasing predators on snowmobiles. In a case of a hot-button issue making strange political bedfellows, conservative firebrand Rep. Matt Gaetz, […]
From Cowboy State Daily: Colorado’s wolf reintroduction program has so far been a disaster, but some believe there’s a chance it could still work if Wyoming’s southern neighbor would follow the Cowboy State’s lead. “How do you make it (wolf reintroduction) work for hunters, how do you make it work for ranchers? How do you […]
From NBC News: Colorado wildlife officials said Monday that they captured and plan to relocate five members of the first pack of wolves to form under the state’s ambitious wolf reintroduction program. A sixth wolf — the pack’s adult male — was captured but died in captivity due to injuries unrelated to its capture, officials said. That wolf […]
