From WHQR Public Media: A new red wolf has arrived at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham. Museum staff said they hope the new male will help with population recovery efforts for the endangered species. Red wolves are considered the rarest wolf species in the world. The only wild population exists in North Carolina, with […]
From Manistee News Advocate: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Northern New Mexico or bust — that seems to be the case for at least one Mexican gray wolf that is intent on wandering beyond the boundaries set for managing the rarest subspecies of gray wolf if North America. Click here for the full story.
From The Timberjay: BABBITT- Anthony Bremel, the local conservation officer for the Babbitt area cautioned pet owners to be aware of recent wolf attacks on pets, which may be more likely given the low deer population. Click here for the full story.
From WUNC 91.5: A new red wolf has arrived at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham. Museum staff said they hope the new male will help with population recovery efforts for the endangered species. Red wolves are considered the rarest wolf species in the world. The only wild population exists in North Carolina, with fewer […]
From Explorers Web: Wolves will eat just about anything. And humans will film just about anything. So it’s a surprise when we’ve never seen a wolf catch a particular prey species before. But you can now cross seals off the list. Researchers in Alaska’s Katmai National Park caught a wolf dragging a harbor seal to shore, killing it, and […]
From CBS Colorado: Wolf reintroduction to Colorado is imminent, and while Colorado Parks and Wildlife put the finishing touches on the plan, a team over at Colorado State University is working to make sure things go as smoothly as humanly possible. Kevin Crooks, a professor in the fish, wildlife and conservation biology department at CSU and […]
From IFLScience: Wolves are famously pack animals, living and hunting together in family groups, they are famous for working together to take down prey items like caribou (Rangifer tarandus) and moose (Alces alces). Now, observations of wolves in Katmai National Park have shown they have developed a taste for a new kind of prey: marine mammals. […]
From Oregon State University: CORVALLIS, Ore. – Firsthand observations of a wolf hunting and killing a harbor seal and a group of wolves hunting and consuming a sea otter on Alaska’s Katmai coast have led scientists to reconsider assumptions about wolf hunting behavior. Wolves have previously been observed consuming sea otter carcasses, but how they […]
From The Aspen Times: As the final steps fall into place before wolves are officially reintroduced to Colorado, policies governing both lethal take in response to livestock depredation and how to foster coexistence with the apex predator have been a flashpoint among livestock growers, conservationists and lawmakers. It’s been a long, three-year haul from Colorado […]
From Idaho Capital Sun: Washington fish and wildlife officials have declined a request from conservation groups to tighten restrictions around when wolves that attack livestock can be killed. A petition the groups filed in September with the state Fish and Wildlife Commission described Washington’s system for dealing with wolf-livestock conflicts as “ineffective.” It asked the panel to […]
