From Cowboy State Daily: The Fish & Wildlife Service is trying to remove federal protection for wolves across the Lower 48. If that happens, it would be up to the states whether to allow wolves to be hunted. Hunting is already allowed in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. Click here to read the full story.
From 13WMAZ: Georgia’s Department of Natural Resources is reminding people that many animals cannot be kept as pets in Georgia. On Thursday, they confiscated an “illegal” pet wolf in Stephens County. They say a female wolf was captured by DNR officials and then taken to “a legally permitted facility.” Click here to read the full story.
From Catalan News: A female wolf, the only one reported to inhabit Catalonia in the last 16 years, has killed seventeen goats in Cistella, north of Girona [Spain]. The farmer and landowner, Francesc Barbany, explained in an interview with RAC1 radio that the attacks began a year ago. Click here to read the full story.
From FOX 31 Denver: Colorado Parks and Wildlife has spent $4.7 million on wolf reintroduction efforts since 2021, the agency told FOX31 Wednesday. This is less than the $5.3 million that has been appropriated to CPW by lawmakers but is more than what was originally estimated by the Legislative Council Staff when voters approved a […]
From The Duluth News Tribune: The Voyageurs Wolf Project report showed that the harsh winter of 2022-2023 led to fewer deer and forced wolves to roam farther in search of food. The recently released study conducted annually by the Voyageurs Wolf Project, reported a 15% decline in the number of wolves observed in the area […]
From Co-operative Press Ltd.: The European Union is looking to downgrade the conservation status of the wolf from strictly protected protected, a move welcomed by the agricultural co-ops but criticised by conservation groups. On 26 September the European Council, which includes ministers from each EU country, decided to submit a European Commission proposal to amend the conservation […]
From the Spokesman-Review: Few discussions result in more fur flying than those involving people with differing views on large carnivores like gray wolves. Such issues are “more complex than who’s right, who’s wrong, who’s bad, who’s good,” said Francine Madden, executive director of the Center for Conservation Peacebuilding, CPeace for short. With a national conversation […]
From Alaska Public Media: Photos of a canine that looked like a wolf roaming Anchorage’s streets recently circulated widely on social media, and raised questions about the animal’s species. The animal was found dead in West Anchorage early Monday. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is doing genetic testing, and it could take months […]
From the BBC: The remains of an animal being studied nearly 40 years after they were found may belong to England’s last wolf. Scraping of the bones are now due to undergo scientific analysis to determine the diet of the animal, which may help to determine the likelihood of them belonging to a wolf, a […]
From the San Francisco Chronicle: Gray wolves, wiped out in California by hunters and trappers a century ago, have been trickling back in over the past decade: a lone wolf here and a pack there, mostly near the Oregon border. In the past year, however, the population has soared, with at least eight packs — the […]
