From Wired.com:
GERMÁN ORIZAOLA was standing in the shadow of Chernobyl Power Plant’s reactor Number Four—the epicenter of the worst nuclear accident ever.
From NMPoliticalReport.com:
When Bob Daugherty headed up the canyon behind his house to check on his cows, he said he was not surprised to find two of them dead and to discover they had been killed by wolves.
He knew that a wolf that had allegedly killed livestock in another area was relocated to a private ranch known as Ladder Ranch last summer and his grazing allotment is not far from that property.
From NBC TV6 in Michigan:
MARQUETTE, Mich. (WLUC) – The Department of Natural Resources is responding to a wolf attack on a dog earlier this week.
The DNR says a man was training his hunting dogs near the Forestville Trailhead Tuesday when it occurred. His dog was baying at a rabbit when a wolf approached and carried the dog further into the woods.
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 The Olive Press in Spain:
The wolf has divided society for centuries but now it will be protected in Spain after a ban on hunting comes into action from September.
The Spanish government will declare the wolf a “wild animal under special protection” which means hunting it is illegal.
From KPVI.com:
Critics of an Idaho wolf law approved earlier this month have launched a petition that could reinstate Endangered Species Act protections for wolves that were lifted a decade ago.
The Humane Society of the United States, Humane Society Legislative Fund, Sierra Club and Center for Biological Diversity announced Wednesday that they petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reinstate protections for wolves in a move prompted by laws in Idaho and Montana.
From the Montana Free Press:
A handful of environmental groups are seeking the emergency re-listing of Northern Rockies gray wolves after lawmakers in Montana and Idaho passed several new laws aimed at aggressively reducing their numbers.
In a petition filed with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday, the Center for Biological Diversity, the Humane Society of the United States and Sierra Club argue that decades of progress toward wolf recovery will be lost if the agency doesn’t intervene by restoring federal protections to the animals under the Endangered Species Act.
From Colorado Public Radio:
A pair of Colorado wolves may not be a set of bachelors after all.
On Thursday, Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced it had mischaracterized two wolves first seen in northern Colorado earlier this year. State biologists previously believed the animals were male “hunting partners” that had wandered in from Wyoming.
From The American Independent:
Wildlife advocates pressed the Biden administration on Wednesday to revive federal protections for gray wolves across the Northern Rockies after Republicans-backed laws in Idaho and Montana made it much easier to kill the predators.
The Center for Biological Diversity, Humane Society and Sierra Club filed a legal petition asking Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to use her emergency authority to return thousands of wolves in the region to protection under the Endangered Species Act.
From WBAY.com:
MADISON, Wis. (WBAY) – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources’ (DNR) Policy Board has started the process of revising the state’s wolf hunt rules.
Board members are considering whether to ban hunting at night, and also shorten the window for registering kills.
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