From Wyoming Public Media: Animal welfare and conservation groups are suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to get gray wolves back on the Endangered Species List. This comes as the Cowboy State is thinking about changing how it manages predatory animals. Animal Wellness Action, the Center for a Humane Economy and Project Coyote are among […]
From Phys.org: Humans drove wolves to extinction in Washington state around the 1930s. Thanks to conservation efforts, by about 80 years later, wolves had returned—crossing first from the Canadian border into Washington around 2008 and later entering the state from Idaho. Since then, wolf numbers in Washington have been steadily growing, raising questions about what […]
From AP News: CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Six conservation groups have filed a lawsuit challenging a recent federal government decision not to protect wolves in the northern U.S. Rocky Mountain region under the Endangered Species Act, arguing that states are exercising too much leeway to keep the predators’ numbers to a minimum. The groups sued […]
From Barron’s: The European Union’s top court ruled Thursday that Austria had no right to hunt wolves, after activists contested killings of the protected species in the Alpine nation. Several regions of Austria started to allow wolves to be killed last year after reporting that the animals were increasingly attacking livestock. Environmental groups brought a […]
From Newswise: Newswise — Humans drove wolves to extinction in Washington state around the 1930s. Thanks to conservation efforts, by about 80 years later, wolves had returned — crossing first from the Canadian border into Washington around 2008 and later entering the state from Idaho. Since then, wolf numbers in Washington have been steadily growing, […]
From Capital Press: Wallowa County has become a hot spot of wolf activity in Northeast Oregon, with two-thirds of the state’s 39 confirmed livestock kills this year by the apex predator as of July 8. The area around Lostine, Oregon, population 250, has 19 of Wallowa County’s 26 kills. Wolves are probably the cause of […]
From The Times of India: Humans might have the most complex system of communicating, but other animals also have ways of giving cues. A new study in Animal Behaviour says that that wolves have subtle ways of speaking, through subtle facial clues that signal their intentions. The Non-verbal communication even helps maintain cohesion within the […]
From MPR News: For more than three decades, Peggy Callahan has talked to the public about wolves as founder and executive director of the Wildlife Science Center in Stacy, which has 81 captive wolves that are used for research and educational programs. Over the years, Callahan has also learned to speak to the wolves. On a warm […]
From Antigo Daily Journal: ANTIGO — On April 1, Gus Ullman was collecting sap for maple syrup on his hunting land north of the Ackley Wildlife Area. His wife was following behind in a truck and maybe 100 yards away, out of sight but still in earshot, Ullman could hear their one-and-a-half year old springer […]
From Post Register: Neither Greek nor Shakespearean tragedies, or even violent Mafioso movies, can rival some of the scenarios wolf 907F has faced while living in the northeastern corner of Yellowstone National Park. “It’s always something exciting or dramatic going on,” said Yellowstone Wolf Project research associate Kira Cassidy. The number 907 refers to the […]
