From The Times of India:
DEHRADUN: The first scientific population estimate of Indian peninsular wolves (canis lupus pallipes), known to be more to be more than a million years older than all other wolf species in the world, has revealed that only 3,100 members of the species are left in the country. This makes them almost as endangered as tigers, whose estimated population in the country is around 2,967.
From Spanish News Today:
The shooting of 34 wolves is permitted in Cantabria after attacks cause the loss of over 1,000 head of livestock
The regional government of Cantabria in the north of Spain has passed a resolution to allow the culling by hunters of 34 wolves in the mountains in the north-west of the region, upsetting conservationists but pleasing cattle farmers as the eternal debate between the two points of view continues.
From the East Oregonian:
BAKER CITY — The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife issued a permit Thursday, July 29, allowing a Baker County ranching couple, or their designated agents, to kill up to four wolves from the Lookout Mountain Pack.
The pack, which consists of an estimated nine wolves, has attacked cattle four times in the past two weeks, killing two and injuring two others and has been determined to be chronically depredating and presents a significant risk to livestock present in the area, according to an ODFW press release.
From The Salt Lake Tribune:
Utah is again lawyering up to fight federal protection of wolves, which are not currently known to inhabit the Beehive State.
On Monday, state officials filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit brought by environmental groups that are trying to reverse a decision by the Donald Trump administration delisting the gray wolf under the Endangered Species Act.
From wired.com:
MEGAN CALLAHAN-BECKEL HAS been working with gray wolves since she was 4 years old. Now the animal care coordinator at the Wildlife Science Center in Minnesota—where her mother, Peggy Callahan, is the executive director—Callahan-Beckel grew up in a home inhabited by not only dogs but also wolf puppies, who must be intensively hand-reared for them to be comfortable with humans later in life. She now raises wolf puppies in her own home every summer, and they come to adore her and see her as a kind of mom.
Much as she loves the wolves, Callahan-Beckel is well equipped to explain why dogs live in our homes and wolves stick to the great outdoors. “They test you, they get into your face, they are cocky, they’re destructive,” she says. “They’re everything that people shouldn’t want in dogs.”
From Reuters:
(Reuters) – The state of Utah has asked a federal court in Oakland for permission to join in a lawsuit in order to oppose conservation groups that are challenging the removal of gray wolves from the list of endangered and threatened species in the lower 48 states.
In a Monday filing, Utah said it wants to join the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Rifle Association in defending the Trump administration’s December decision to de-list the gray wolf. WildEarth Guardians and other groups sued the government to undo the decision in January, alleging violations of the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
From The Craig Press in Colorado:
Monday, a group from the Keystone Policy Center and the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission visited Craig to discuss plans for wolf reintroduction. The reintroduction, approved by Colorado voters last November, could happen in the area within the next couple of years.
Residents of the area were invited to visit various stations set up at Moffat County High School to learn more about Proposition 114.
From the Associated Press:
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced plans Monday to review whether a southeast Alaska wolf population merits Endangered Species Act protections.
The plans are outlined in a document set to be published in the Federal Register on Tuesday. The document states that a petition from conservation groups to protect the Alexander Archipelago wolf included information indicating protections may be warranted due to potential threats associated with logging, illegal and legal trapping and hunting, climate change impacts and loss of genetic diversity.
From MLive.com:
LANSING, MI — Attorneys general in Michigan and Oregon have filed a joint amicus brief in litigation against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS), which alleges the federal government improperly removed gray wolf endangered species protection.
In a July 23 filing in U.S. District Court in Northern California, the two attorneys general argue that FWS unlawfully removed gray wolves from the endangered species list in January during the final weeks of the Trump administration.
From The Guardian in the UK:
The woods were full of the sounds of snowmobiles and baying hounds. A group of perhaps a dozen hunters had gathered to give chase to big game along a frozen creek in north-eastern Wisconsin.
Hound hunting, chiefly for black bear and coyote, is a popular pastime in this part of the state. But the houndsman who emerged from the hemlocks onto a snowy road around twilight held a different kind of trophy.
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