Revisited plan to liberalize coyote/wolf hunt snares mixed reactions in northern Ontario

From the Manitoulin Expositor:

QUEEN’S PARK – The provincial government recently announced that it is revisiting a proposal to liberalize the hunting of wolves and coyotes, ostensibly on behalf of the concerns of hunters, across much of Northern Ontario and the proposal is meeting with mixed reviews on Manitoulin.

One of the key challenges with the hunting and trapping of wolves and coyotes, according to Billings trapper Ian Anderson, is that it is very difficult for even an experienced trapper or hunter to tell the species apart, especially at a distance.

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Wolves Gave Tibetan Mastiffs Their Mountaineering Genes

From Smithsonian.com:

In the mountains, Tibetan mastiffs dare to tread where other pups would drop their squeaky toys and whimper with exhaustion. The massive, 150-pound animals thrive at high altitudes, and now researchers know why: the mastiffs have a little extra dose of wolf in their genes.

The big, furry dog breed with a lion-like mane may date back as far as 1,100 B.C., when it began its role as a high-altitude guard dog. Tibetan people have used mastiffs guard their flocks of sheep from predators, like wolves, for centuries. The dogs lived alongside their human companions at altitudes of 15,000 feet or higher, heights in which average dogs wouldn’t withstand the lack of oxygen.

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Scientists urge five-country collaboration to save Himalayan wolf

From The Times of India:

SHIMLA: Wildlife Institute scientist Salvador Lyngdoh camped in Mane, a village approximately 4000 metres above sea level and juxtaposed to the Kibber Wildlife Sanctuary in the Spiti region of Himachal Pradesh. 

His mission was to radio collar the Himalayan wolf and learn about the enigmatic predator of the higher Himalayas.

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Another wolf relocated to Isle Royale National Park

From wnmufm.org:

ISLE ROYALE NATIONAL PARK–   An Upper Peninsula wolf has joined 14 others on Isle Royale National Park.

The 70-pound, three-year-old male was captured on the mainland last week and flown by sea plane to the moose-laden island. It marks the second year of the National Park Service’s efforts to restore predation to Isle Royale after wolf numbers decreased to only two. Since last September 12 other wolves were brought from Ontario, Canada, Minnesota, and a Canadian island.

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Video images of first wolf cubs in Netherlands for 200 years

From DutchNews.nl:

A filmmaker has captured the clearest pictures yet of the wolf pack that is living in the Veluwe national park. At least three cubs have been born in the pack and rangers say there could be as many as five young wolves living with the three adults. The pictures, taken by wildlife photographer Patrick van Es, show two of the cubs walking across the heathland. 

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Minnesota state parks to feature Wolves at Our Door presentations

The International Wolf Center is working with state parks in Minnesota to offer its popular Wolves at Our Door program this summer.

So far, these programs have been added to the schedule:

  • 7:30 p.m. Aug. 9 at William O’Brien State Park;
  • 11 a.m. Aug. 10 at Lake Maria State Park;
  • 6:30 p.m. Aug. 15 at Bear Head Lake State Park;
  • 7:30 p.m. Aug. 24 at Crow Wing; and
  • 2 p.m. Sept. 14 at Mille Lacs Kathio State Park.

Additional presentations will be posted here when scheduled.

Gene transcripts from ancient wolf analyzed after 14,000 years in permafrost

From Eurekalert.com:

RNA — the short-lived transcripts of genes — from the “Tumat puppy”, a wolf of the Pleistocene era has been isolated, and its sequence analyzed in a new study by Oliver Smith of the University of Copenhagen and colleagues publishing on July 30 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology. The results establish the possibility of examining a range of RNA transcripts from ancient organisms, a possibility previously thought to be extremely unlikely because of the short lifespan of RNA.

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Wolf trapper certification class coming to Billings, Montana

From KULR8.com:

A wolf trapper certification class scheduled for Billings aims to educate those willing to learn, how to properly trap and conserve in the state of Montana. 

The class will be a comprehensive education session taught by FWP staff and experienced wolf trappers.

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Suitable habitats of Indian Grey Wolves in eastern India lie outside protected areas, says study

From ResearchMatters.in:

In February 2019, people from three villages in the Jhargram district of West Bengal feared a wolf that had attacked eight people. Local newspapers reported that in a neighbouring village, three men sitting around a fire were attacked by a wolf, and one of them later died at a hospital. The increasing incidents of wolf attacks in the region was a cause of concern for those working in the fields. Finally, a wolf trying to hunt a sheep in the village was captured by the locals and handed over to the authorities. Often, villagers retaliate by poisoning wolves or killing them when they find their livestock missing. However, data shows that more wolves are attacked and killed by humans than humans are by wolves. During the British rule, wolves were declared as vermin, and about 200,000 wolves were reportedly killed in India.

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Meet the first ever wolf-friendly town in Hungary

From Daily News Hungary:

In the past few years, lots of large carnivores settled down near the Hungarian town of Füzér, which has around 430 inhabitants. By now, there is probably a bigger pack of wolves and lynxes, which is why the local authorities decided to help the animals with a field of land on the border of the village designated specifically to them.

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