From Wild beim Wild:
A reader from Spain contacted IG Wild beim Wild this week.
In Asturias, she wrote, the regional government had decided to kill 67 wolves. She asked for help for these animals. We looked into the case. It is confirmed, and it is more serious than a mere kill figure would suggest.
From Fox 10 Phoenix:
Officials with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently announced the removal of two Mexican gray wolves after the predators killed and injured livestock in the American Southwest. The decision has drawn criticism from conservation advocates who say this type of removal represents a slippery slope.
From Wild beim Wild:
A new comparative evaluation in the journal Conservation Science and Practice calls into question the assumption that removing wolves reliably protects livestock.
The team of authors led by Adrian Treves compared five field studies from Slovenia, Michigan, Slovakia, Latvia and the Golan Heights. Each of them pursued the same question: does killing wolves reduce subsequent losses of livestock?
From Active NorCal:
County supervisors approved an agreement with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife giving Tehama County access to the confidential GPS collar locations used to track gray wolves, KRCR reported. The county will use the information for livestock protection, depredation response and wolf conservation work.
From The Parliament Magazine:
Europe brought native wolves back from near-extinction. Now governments, farmers and ecologists are locked in battle about how to coexist — or not — with the continent’s oldest villain.
From The Aspen Times:
Colorado Parks and Wildlife has reached an agreement with the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe over the restoration and management of gray wolves on tribal lands in the state.
From Great British Life:
Legend has it that back in the 14th century, Cumbria laid claim to slaying the last wolf in England. The story goes that the wolf was chased over Windermere and swam across the lake in an attempt to escape its fate and from there made its way down the Cartmel Peninsula where it eventually, despite a valiant effort, met its end on the shores of Humphrey Head.
Alas, this cannot be proven but it is a claim that is well backed. Wild wolves did manage to hold out from extermination in Scotland until the late 17th/18th century but, in time, they too would lose their stronghold to the hands and weapons of men.
From CBC Canada:
Parks Canada has reopened several popular hiking trails in the Kluane National Park and Reserve that were closed earlier this month following a wolf attack.
Last weekend, agency staff used a high-powered rifle to kill a young female wolf believed to be involved in the incident. Parks Canada and the Yukon government are currently conducting a necropsy on the animal and testing for rabies.
From CNN:
He became known as “the wolf boy of Sierra Morena.”
For most of his childhood, Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja lived in these remote Spanish mountains, isolated from human contact.
He spent 12 extraordinary years being raised by wolves, after early tragedy had led to his abandonment.
From The Denver Post:
Colorado’s collared wolves remained in the northwest part of the state over the last month, even as pups born this spring begin to venture out.
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