Colorado Parks and Wildlife Awards Born to Be Wild License Plate Grant Funding

From Steamboat Radio:

Colorado Parks and Wildlife has announced two groups to receive funding to help raise awareness and promote the Born to Be Wild License Plate program. The Rocky Mountain Wolf Project was awarded $30,000 to support their Coexistence Through Collaboration Campaign. The Native American Broadcasting Company, division Red Hawk, was awarded $20,000 to help raise awareness of the license plates.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife says money from purchase of the Born to Be Wild license plates is to help raise awareness of wolf activity in Colorado, and help minimize wolf-livestock conflicts.

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Report says at least 41 wolves were likely poached in the Netherlands since 2021

From NLTimes:

At least 41 wolves that disappeared from monitoring systems in the Netherlands between October 2021 and March 2026 probably fell victim to poaching. This comes from a report released Tuesday by wildlife crime researcher Pauline Verheij, who says the figure is almost certainly an underestimate, de Volkskrant reports.

The Veluwe and the provinces of Drenthe and Friesland were identified as poaching hotspots.

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Village documents 600 species through a community-led survey

From Mongabay.com:

Kiraksal, a hilly village in the drought-prone region in Maharashtra, has documented 606 species, including the Indian wolf and striped hyena.

The project used camera trap experiments to document wildlife and conducted GIS mapping of five-year data to ascertain land use patterns.

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Rare footage reveals how wolves hunt beavers

From EarthTouchNews.com:

Outside humans, the overall numero-uno predator of beavers is the grey wolf. Research over the past decade or two in particular has gone a long way toward illuminating this particular hunter/hunted dynamic.

That said, it remains a somewhat obscure subject—not least because of how hard it is to directly observe interactions between the two critters: the one the biggest wild canid in the world, the other the second-biggest rodent in the world—and a semiaquatic, mostly nocturnal engineer renowned for its ability to sculpt landscapes.

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Wolf attacks down to nil in Bahraich after dens protected

From IndiaTimes.com:

A year after wolf attacks turned parts of Bahraich into fear zones, killing 14 people and critically injuring 30, most of them children, the district has reported no human-wolf conflict so far this season, with forest officials crediting a conservation-;ed response that protetced dens in the Ghaghara river catchment and stoped activities they said had pushed wolves towards villages.

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Woodlands Nature Station in LBL [Kentucky] welcomes new Red Wolf, Rosie

From WHOP.com:

The Woodlands Nature Station in the Land Between the Lakes is welcoming a new face, as red wolf Rosie will join the ranks of the animals that call the wildlife station home.

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Mule Deer Are Already Using California’s First Wildlife Crossing—and It’s Not Even Finished Yet

From SmithsonianMag.com:

Construction on the $20 million bridge in Siskiyou County began last year and is expected to be complete by this fall, with miles of eight-foot-high fencing along the highway to help funnel animals toward it.

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Siskiyou County [California] Installs Wolf Awareness Signs in Areas of Known Wolf Activity

From SiskiyouCounty.gov:

YREKA, Calif. – Siskiyou County (the County) and the Public Works Department has recently installed wolf awareness signs along select county roads in areas where gray wolf activity has been documented.

The signs, which resemble traditional wildlife crossing signs, are intended to increase public awareness and help inform residents, visitors, outdoor recreationists, and motorists that wolves may be present in the surrounding area.

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The debate about Mexican wolves is loud, but their economic impact is surprisingly small

From SourceNM.com:

For years, ranchers have butted heads with conservationists and the federal government – claiming that the endangered Mexican gray wolf is a serious threat to their local economies and public safety.

Federal data obtained by KUNM, however, tells a different story.

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Colorado Wolf Opponents Now Say Prop 114 Never Passed, Claiming Election Fraud in Appeal to USFWS

From OutdoorLife.com:

A group that opposes Colorado’s wolf reintroduction efforts is now arguing that Proposition 114, the ballot initiative that established the state’s wolf reintroduction program, didn’t actually pass among voters in 2020.

The group, Colorado Conservation Alliance, is asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — which is already reviewing the reintroduction program — to reconsider the implementation agreement it has with Colorado Parks and Wildlife while these claims are reviewed.

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