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 […]
From StarTribune: Our point is that the billboard’s message is propaganda and its connection to wildlife management is logically flawed and not supported by the best available science. The life of a deer fawn is perilous regardless of whether any of their predators are hunted or trapped, and sometimes even if there are no predators […]
From The Coastland Times: In a way, the anecdote sums up the plight of this uniquely American species. Once declared extinct in the wild, Canis rufus — the only wolf species found solely in the United States — was reintroduced in the late 1980s on the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, just across the sound […]
From VOCM Local News Now: The Newfoundland and Labrador Outfitters Association is helping with research on the province’s wolf and coyote populations. For years, researchers have been collecting information on a growing grey wolf population on the island portion of the province. Wildlife officials have been collecting samples to determine whether an animal is a […]
From Inside Climate News: In Yellowstone National Park, the reintroduction of the gray wolf in the 1990s has helped reduce an exploding elk population, which in turn helped save plants along streams and rivers, which provide habitat for migrating birds, building materials for beavers, and dam ponds for fish and frogs. Click here for […]
