From SummitDaily.com:
As Colorado lawmakers wrapped up the 2026 legislative session on Wednesday, May 13, they passed bills and had discussions that will impact not only the state’s human residents but also its wildlife.
From Futura-Sciences.com:
When the Greek wildlife conservation group Callisto ran DNA tests on 50 wolf samples from across the mainland, the results turned up something unexpected: one of the animals was 55% domestic dog and 45% gray wolf.
Callisto biologist Aimilia Ioakimeidou presented the findings at a conference in Athens, confirming it as the first genetically verified case of a wolf-dog hybrid in Greece.
From SFGate.com:
A lone gray wolf has traveled hundreds of miles across California and into Sequoia National Park, marking the first time a wolf has been in the area for over a hundred years.
The 3-year-old female wolf, known as BEY03F, made headlines in February when she became the first wolf to cross into Los Angeles County since gray wolves reentered California in 2011. She was born into the Beyem Seyo pack in Plumas County and has since dispersed hundreds of miles across California, likely in search of a mate, according to reporting by the Los Angeles Times.
From Wildlife.org:
It was the winter of 2022, and hounds were already on the trail of a cougar fresh off a recent kill in the remote wilderness of northern British Columbia. Just a day earlier, Shane White’s colleague was conducting wolf surveys by helicopter when she spotted the cat. The cougar (Puma concolor) took off into the nearby timber as the chopper approached.
But knowing that White was about to begin a project trapping cougars in the area to fit them with GPS tracking collars, the colleague immediately notified him.
From Forbes.com:
Bring wolves back to a landscape, and eventually, the surrounding rivers will begin to change in response. This claim has proliferated online, mostly because it feels too poetic to be true. And yet, ecologists have spent the better part of the last thirty years documenting exactly that.
Wolves, of course, aren’t physically reshaping rivers with their paws. What they alter is behavior, pressure, movement and fear. Those changes ripple outward through ecosystems in ways that can ultimately affect streambanks, vegetation, wetlands and water flow itself.
From WFAE.org:
One critically endangered species that calls North Carolina home now has five more members. Three male and two female red wolf pups were born this month at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham. Red wolves once thrived across the Southeast but now number only about 300 total, in the wild and in captivity. One part of eastern North Carolina is the only confirmed place where the wolves live in the wild.
To talk more about red wolves, I’m joined now by Katerina Ramos. She’s the red wolf education and outreach coordinator with the North Carolina Wildlife Federation.
Click here for the full story.
From Fox28Spokane.com:
The state’s wolf population grew 17% last year to 270 wolves across 49 packs. It’s a huge win for conservationists because wolves were nearly wiped out across the West by the 1930s. But for ranchers in northeastern Washington, it’s costing them their way of life.
From WildBeimWild.com:
Italy’s Senate is pushing forward a hunting reform that downgrades the wolf, opens ibex, wild goose and feral pigeon to being killed, and criminalises civil disobedience against hobby hunting.
From SpaceDaily.com:
The gray wolf population inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone has undergone a dramatic resurgence over the four decades following the nuclear catastrophe. According to researchers tracking the area, wolf populations are seven times higher than they were before the accident because there is less human pressure.
This accidental sanctuary highlights a stark, counterintuitive reality: the complete removal of modern human industrial activity has allowed apex predators and large mammals to flourish in a landscape once defined entirely by ruin.
From Today.RTL.lu:
While farmers in northern Luxembourg believe a wolf has killed four calves since last week, the Nature and Forest Agency has yet to carry out analyses to officially confirm the cause.
The International Wolf Center uses science-based education to teach and inspire the world about wolves, their ecology, and the wolf-human relationship.