From The Washington Post:
BILLINGS, Mont. — Twenty of Yellowstone National Park’s renowned gray wolves roamed from the park and were shot by hunters in recent months — the most killed by hunting in a single season since the predators were reintroduced to the region more than 25 years ago, park officials said.
From The Guardian:
Finland is joining Sweden and Norway in culling wolves this winter to control their population, as conservation groups appeal to the European Union to take action against the slaughter.
Hunters in Sweden have already shot dead most of their annual target of 27 wolves, while Finland is to authorise the killing of 20 wolves in its first “population management cull” for seven years.
From the Mountain Journal:
For the first autumn in 27 years, the most famous population of wild wolves in the world has essentially no protection when members of its packs wander across the invisible boundary of Yellowstone National Park into Montana.
From the Greek Reporter in Greece:
A recent incident in which a wolf approached a man and his daughter and attacked their dog on Mt. Parnitha just outside of Athens on Saturday shocked many Greeks all across the country.
Most residents of the Greek capital certainly had no idea whatsoever that wolves roamed the mountainous slopes located so close to the metropolis.
From OPB.org:
Oregon State Police are investigating a collared wolf that was found dead in Wallowa County last week.
Investigators say the two-year-old female wolf, which had been collared by wildlife officials and named OR-106, was likely shot to death.
From DutchNews.NL in the Netherlands:
Dutch MEP Bert-Jan Ruissen has come out in support of a resolution by the European parliament’s agricultural committee calling for measures to control wolves by ‘scaling down’ their protected status’, the AD reports. Ruissen, a member of the fundamentalist Protestant party SGP, said wolves, which now number over 20,000 in Europe, are causing problems for sheep farms and agriculture in some regions. ‘It’s ok to want to protect a species but why would they need to be protected in all member states? In the Netherlands we simply don’t have the space, perhaps only for a few wolves in the Veluwe national park,’ he told the paper.
From ekathimerini.com in Greece:
In the wake of a deadly wolf attack on a puppy in Mt Parnitha in Attica on Sunday, the environmental group Callisto has warned that people could be next if authorities do not take measures soon.
From the Summit Daily:
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission will consider during a virtual meeting this week emergency regulations allowing ranchers to protect livestock by hazing wolves.
Wolves killed a heifer near Walden last month — the first such confirmed kill in decades. If approved Wednesday, Jan. 12, new hazing regulations would go into effect right away because of the emergency process, but commissioners first discussed the policy in November.
From Local12.com:
BILLINGS, Mont. (WKRC) – Gray wolves are a prized species in Yellowstone National Park, but a record 20 of them have been hunted in the last few months, according to park officials.
The gray wolves were reintroduced in the region 25 years ago. The wolves were roaming at the northern border in Montana where 15 of them were hunted, according to reports. The other five wolves died in Idaho and Wyoming.
From the Associated Press:
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — An endangered Mexican gray wolf that had been roaming around northern Arizona has been found dead, federal officials confirmed Friday.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said the male wolf was killed sometime last weekend. Authorities said the incident is under investigation and declined to release any additional information.
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