From The Wildlife Society: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has finalized plans to designate Colorado’s gray wolf population as a “nonessential experimental population,” loosening restrictions on take traditionally granted to federally listed species. Click here for the full story.
From 27WKOW: MANITOWISH WATERS, Wis. (WKOW) — The wolf management plan advanced by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources gained key support, inching the initiative closer to approval. At a meeting Wednesday of the Natural Resources Board, the body tasked with overseeing various aspects of the DNR’s operations, Chair Bill Smith signaled that he supported […]
From Eurasia Review: Protecting large areas of land from human activity can help stem the tide of biodiversity loss, especially for vertebrates like amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds, according to a new study in Nature. In particular, vertebrate population declines were five times slower in conservation areas compared to animals living in areas not protected from […]
From Eagle Herald MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The leader of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources policy board signaled support Wednesday for the department’s contentious new wolf management plan even though the document lacks a hard population cap that hunters and farmers have demanded. Click here for the full story.
From Dutch News: The Netherlands is now home to nine separate wolf packs, according to provincial wildlife agency BIJ12 which monitors wolf sightings. Wolves have been slowly returning to the Netherlands after an absence of 200 years and the nine pairs of wolves which have made the Netherlands their home had at least 39 cubs […]
From Billings Gazette: After being functionally absent from the continental United States for approximately a century, wolves are back on the landscape and continually expanding into new areas. Kristin Barker, research coordinator for the Beyond Yellowstone program, says, “The return of wolves to Yellowstone National Park has been touted as a key driver of restored […]
From EuroNews: Wolves are back in Belgium and their growing presence is creating tensions with farmers, who fear for the safety of their livestock. They want to reopen the debate on wolf hunting in Europe, which forbids it under both the EU’s Habitats Directive and the Bern Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural […]
From AZ Animals: The hunt can be a vicious activity for wolves. Wolves hunt together in packs. This is the way they are able to hunt and chase down their prey smartly. Typically, prey that is much larger than they are. We can see here from the video below that in the face of dozens […]
From 9News: COLORADO, USA — New research, published Monday, predicts where wolves could eventually thrive in Colorado. U.S. Forest Service Research Ecologist Dr. Mark Ditmer pinpointed wildernesses near Aspen: Hunter-Fryingpan and Collegiate Peaks. “If they’re staying in large wilderness areas they’re less likely to be moving through public lands or causing potential conflict,” said Ditmer. Click here […]
From Wisconsin State Farmer: Many farmers and others who live or recreate in the northern half of Wisconsin view the current wolf management plan drafted by the Department of Natural Resources as more of a wolf protection plan or wolf population expansion plan rather than a serious plan to limit the state’s expanding gray wolf […]
