From weaather.com:
Not long ago, enforcement agencies considered local communities a threat to conservation, driving them away from “reserved” forests and blocking their access to natural resources like honey and fodder. Repeated conflicts remained widespread and constant from colonial times up until recent years.
After decades of struggle, policies worldwide slowly started to recognise the rights of local communities. Over the past few years, however, conservationists have begun recognising them as assets and partners.
From haaretz.com:
Gilad Guy is living his passion. Although he never studied programming, he worked in the high-tech sector for 15 years. Then he decided he didn’t want to spend his life in front of a computer screen. So, he moved to the Golan Heights and focused on what he loved – photographing wolves. He is now working on raising money to produce a film about the most densely populated wolf population in the world.
He describes himself as “an independent wildlife photographer.” Besides his project to produce a wildlife documentary about the wolf packs in the Golan Heights, he has plenty to keep him busy.
From the Idaho Mountain Express:
Hailey-based Western Watersheds Project joined nine other environmental groups on Tuesday in filing a petition against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over its continued lack of federal protections for gray wolves in the northern Rockies region.
U.S. District Judge Jeffery White restored federal protections for gray wolves in most U.S. states on Feb. 10, reversing a 2020 ruling under the Trump administration that removed wolves from the Endangered Species Act list—a designation held since 1974.
From the Flathead Beacon in Kalispell, Montana:
The story of how a tattered leather research collar from Banff National Park turned up in a snow-choked drainage west of Kalispell begins more than two decades ago, in the autumn of 2001, when a juvenile female gray wolf began transmitting valuable tracking data to biologists with Parks Canada.
The researchers were studying wolf dispersal and how the cross-country treks of lone wolves can improve genetic diversity among a keystone species in recovery. Their research methods occasionally involved tracking the large carnivores on epic transboundary journeys, which criss-crossed a patchwork of management regimes and jurisdictions as individual wolves moved between places of protection and peril.
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From KATU.com
COVE, Ore. — Information on a wolf found shot to death last month is the subject of a reward up to $22,500, the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife said Wendesday.
Oregon State Police Fish and Wildlife Troopers located the carcass of OR109 while responding to a mortality signal from the wolf’s tracking collar outside of the town of Cove in Union County in northeastern Oregon.
From the Duluth News Tribune in Minnesota:
DULUTH — A U.S. government program that captures and kills wolves near where livestock have been killed in Minnesota is back in business after a pause caused by a recent federal court decision.
A federal judge in California ruled on Feb. 10 that wolves across most of the U.S. have regained protections under the federal Endangered Species Act, including in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan.
From the Challis Messenger:
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Wolf hunting and trapping ended for the season in southwestern Montana after hunters killed 82 wolves in the region, the state Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks said Feb. 17.
Yellowstone National Park officials had asked the state in December to suspend wolf hunting and trapping in some areas along the park’s border, saying the number of wolves killed marked a significant setback for the long-term viability of Yellowstone’s wolf packs.
From The Hill:
Two red wolves were released this month into a conservation area west of the Outer Banks in North Carolina, the Red Wolf Recovery Program announced on Saturday.
“First steps towards the wild!” the program wrote alongside a video on Facebook, adding: “These 2 red wolves (Female 2272 from Zoo Knoxville and Male 2141 from the Western North Carolina Nature Center) are the first of the 10 wolves brought to the NC NEP during the winter 2021/2022 to be released.”
From CTV News in Vancouver Island:
Royal Roads University (RRU) is warning visitors of recent wolf reports on campus, specifically reports of the Vancouver Coastal Island wolf.
This rare subspecies of grey wolf is generally found on Northern Vancouver Island. However, the university says there have been recent reports of the wolf being “seen and heard” on the RRU campus in Colwood, B.C.
The International Wolf Center advances the survival of wolf populations by teaching about wolves, their relationship to wildlands and the human role in their future.