From WorldAnimalNews.com:
Venice, Italy — Peace 4 Animals is thrilled to unveil the groundbreaking cover of Variety Magazine, featuring a wolf from the upcoming documentary Protectors Of The Wild, at this year’s prestigious Venice Film Festival. This momentous initiative aims to raise critical awareness about this majestic yet often misunderstood keystone species and their struggle for survival in an increasingly uncertain world.
From the Colorado Sun:
Colorado Parks and Wildlife is learning in the first year of reintroduction that there’s little winning with wolves.
The agency’s latest plan to trap and move a Grand County pack that has been killing livestock riled wildlife groups, who roundly blasted the relocation plan as “being driven by politics … not rooted in science-based management” and a potential “death sentence” for the Copper Creek pack’s three pups. (The pack was named in June after CPW saw that two adults captured in Oregon and released in Colorado last year had produced offspring, the first of the reintroduced wolves. It is unclear if CPW plans to trap and relocate the pups.)
Scientists who trapped problem wolves in Montana and relocated them to a different part of the state agree that the process rarely ends well for young wolves that rely on their parents and do not know how to hunt.
From Post Independent:
Marlon Reis, Colorado’s first gentleman, has deleted his Instagram and Facebook accounts after getting into a debate with several ranchers on a now-missing Facebook post.
He is described as “a freelance writer, an animal welfare advocate, a father, and the first First Gentleman of Colorado” on the governor’s website. During his time as Colorado’s first gentleman, Reis has often used his platform to advocate for wildlife and environmental issues.
“The First Gentleman views social media as a tool for celebrating animals and sharing the many ways in which the Polis Administration is pro-actively working to protect them,” stated Shelby Wieman, press secretary for the governor’s office.
From VOA News:
Authorities in India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state Thursday said they captured one of what is believed to be a pack of wolves that have killed at least seven people in recent weeks, including six children, in the state’s Bahraich district.
In a video provided by the state forestry department, a small wolf can be seen in a cage as people gathered around it. Officials said the wolf was later tranquilized and taken to a local zoo.
From 9News:
Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials are attempting to do something two wolf experts say could be without precedent: Relocating wolves twice within nine months.
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From Colorad0an:
For the first time in Rocky Mountain National Park history, a wolf has been confirmed in its boundaries.
The latest Colorado wolf activity map indicates a released wolf was in the park between July 23 and Aug. 25, Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced on its map page Wednesday.
“A collared gray wolf reintroduced in December spent some time inside the boundaries of Rocky Mountain National Park,” the state wildlife agency’s update read.
From Courthouse News Service:
(CN) — After his order limiting wolf trapping and snaring in Montana’s grizzly bear territory survived the scrutiny of a Ninth Circuit panel this past April, Chief U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy denied conservation groups’ motion for summary judgment in the case.
Molloy, a Bill Clinton appointee, wrote in a 30-page order that there are still material questions of fact in the case that are best answered at a bench trial, which is scheduled to begin Dec. 2.
From The Denver Post:
Colorado wildlife officials are relocating two reintroduced wolves and their pups after a series of livestock depredations — a setback for the historic and controversial reintroduction program launched late last year.
The pack of wolves, called the Copper Creek pack, will be captured from the wild in Grand County, Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced Tuesday night. The agency did not disclose where the pack will be moved to, citing the need to protect the wolves and CPW staff.
From KIOW:
The Friends of Winnebago County Conservation Foundation, in conjunction with the Winnebago
County Conservation Board, will be hosting a traveling exhibit at the Hanson Nature Center during the month of September. The exhibit is entitled, “Wolves and Wild Lands” and comes from the International Wolf Center in Ely, MN. The display will be open to the public throughout the month.
From Elk Horn Media Group:
WALLOWA COUNTY — The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) has extended limited duration permits for livestock producers near Lostine, allowing them to continue efforts to remove a chronically depredating wolf until August 31. The permits, which were originally set to expire on July 31, have been extended due to ongoing depredation issues in the area.
The permits were initially issued following multiple wolf attacks on livestock in the southern portion of the Sled Springs Wildlife Management Unit (WMU) and the northern portion of the Minam WMU. Since May, local producers have reported three confirmed depredations and two probable attacks on their livestock, which led ODFW to authorize the removal of two wolves from the area.
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