From AgProud.com:
Idaho has implemented various initiatives to control the wolf population and mitigate livestock losses. With funding from both state programs and private organizations, ranchers now have new tools to combat wolf-related depredation.
From CBSNews.com:
All four Republican members of Colorado’s Congressional Delegation are calling for an end to wolf reintroduction in the state and delisting the gray wolf from the Endangered Species Act.
In a joint statement, Reps. Lauren Boebert, Jeff Crank, Gabe Evans, and Jeff Hurd said they’re “demanding answers” from the U.S. Department of the Interior on the controversial program.
From Phys.org:
Depending on who’s talking, Colorado’s wolves are an existential threat to ranching, an imperiled native species crucial to a healthy ecosystem, a ruthless predator that kills for sport or a beautiful species that enriches lives.
Despite a full year passing since the first reintroduced canines put paws on the ground, tensions over the apex predator remain high.
From TheConversation.com:
Four lynx were recently and illegally released into the Scottish highlands. The news prompted searchers to comb the Cairngorms region, the UK’s biggest national park. People were warned not to approach the animals if they encountered them.
The astonishing recovery of lynx, wolf and bear populations across Europe over the last three decades is forcing us to confront our innate responses to animals like these once more. Now, with the idea of large carnivore reintroductions to Britain gathering pace, we are having to consider our potential relationship with them here.
From Cowboy State Daily:
Wolves from British Columbia, Canada, were flown into Colorado, but officials aren’t saying where they’ll be released, stirring up renewed criticism that the state’s wolf reintroduction program is too secretive.
“People are more upset about them being so secretive about it than they are about the wolves being here,” Garfield County, Colorado, commissioner Perry Will told Cowboy State Daily on Monday.
“Some are even disgusted,” he added.
From Fox32Chicago:
BROOKFIELD, Ill. – In this morning’s Good News Guarantee, volunteer pilots are keeping animals we know and love from becoming extinct, and their mission begins at Brookfield Zoo Chicago. They are tiny but mighty. Seven Mexican wolf pups, born at Brookfield Zoo Chicago, are on a journey into the wild.
From WesternSlopeNow.com:
MESA COUNTY, Colo. (KREX) – U.S. Rep. Jeff Hurd, Third Congressional District, joined his colleagues Monday in criticizing the Colorado Parks and Wildlife for importing Canadian gray wolves into the state over this past weekend.
Hurd, who along with U.S. Reps. Lauren Boebert, Jeff Crank and Gabe Evans, said in a joint statement:
“After years of slighting or outright ignoring Colorado farmers and ranchers with politically appointed anti-agricultural activists and ‘meat-free days,’ bureaucrats in Colorado have rushed through the importation of Canadian gray wolves and have set them loose in our state despite numerous protests and questions about the legality of this dysfunctional and chaotic approach.
From HumaneSociety.org:
In a victory for wolves, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently denied two petitions filed by trophy hunting organizations aimed at removing federal Endangered Species Act protections for wolves in the Western Great Lakes region and reducing or removing protections for wolves in other areas of the lower 48 states.
Wolves (outside of the Northern Rocky Mountain region) remain safely protected—at least for now. But the attempt to remove their protections continues, and it is multipronged: We are still in court fighting the Fish and Wildlife Service’s most recent attempt to delist wolves nationwide, a policy the agency is trying to reinstate through a meritless appeal. And we’ve brought a separate lawsuit seeking to restore desperately needed protections to wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains, where they face extreme levels of state-sponsored killing.
From PBS North Carolina:
Human families need to move sometimes to accommodate growing families and find new opportunities.
It turns out the same is true for critically endangered red wolves.
The Museum of Life and Science’s family of seven red wolves is moving from Durham to the Wolf Conservation Center in South Salem, New York. Biologists believe relocating the family to the new facility offers the best chance for the first-time parents to breed again.
From The Spokesman-Review:
Conflict between wolves and livestock hit a high in Washington in 2024.
Wolves injured or killed at least 56 cattle in the state in 2024, according to Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife records.
The total, which includes confirmed and probable depredations, is the highest the department has recorded since it started tracking wolf-livestock conflict, and it’s more than double the total cattle injured by wolves in 2023.
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