From DenverGazette.com:
With no apparent plan in place to bring in more wolves to Colorado for 2026, Colorado Parks and Wildlife may have an even bigger problem.
A Dec. 18 letter from Brian Nesvik, director of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS), threatens to terminate the state’s authority to manage wolves unless certain conditions are met.
From MirageNews.com:
A long-term study examining wolf–human interactions in Türkiye reveals the delicate balance between ecology and society.
Living close to nature does not always mean living in harmony. Across many regions of Türkiye, the boundaries between wildlife habitats and human activity are becoming increasingly blurred. When large predators such as wolves are involved, these encounters can have serious consequences—for both people and animals.
From WarpNews.com:
Gray wolves, pumas, black bears, and grizzly bears have made significant comebacks in North America thanks to legislation and changing attitudes.
The wolf population in the Northern Rockies has increased from 66 reintroduced individuals to over 2,800 in 30 years. Black bears have increased by approximately two percent annually since the 1980s and now number over 850,000 individuals.
From SteamboatPilot.com:
As state builds self-sustaining population of gray wolves, are politics and emotions overriding science? Editor’s note: This is the second story in a two-part series recapping Colorado’s second year of wolf reintroduction.
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From TheTimes.com:
An Italian council has been criticised for spending €50,000 on killing a wolf.
Arno Kompatscher, governor of the German-speaking South Tyrol territory, ordered that two wolves be culled in July after 31 recorded attacks on grazing animals within two months in the Vinschgau Valley, near the Swiss and Austrian borders.
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From AGDaily.com:
A century of shifting federal priorities transformed wolves from ‘public enemies’ into protected predators, and reshaped life on working lands.
Humans and animal interactions have long been complex, and as development and commercialization has minimized encounters in urban and suburban parts of the United States, rural ranchers are bearing the brunt of evolving ecological policy. And though this issue goes back more than half a century, the toll to modern ranchers is accelerating.
From MontanaFreePress.org:
People’s tolerance for wolves goes up when they see one. It also goes up when they don’t.
That apparent contradiction explains why attitudes toward wolves have grown consistently friendlier over the past decade, according to a new study in the journal Conservation Science and Practice.
From SummitDaily.com:
Colorado’s wolf program was eventful from the start in 2025.
Just over a week into the new year, Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s commission rejected a request to halt wolf releases, which was requested by Western Slope agricultural producers, towns and elected officials. Ten days later, the state’s population of gray wolves tripled with the release of 15 gray wolves from Canada and the re-release of five members from the Copper Creek Pack.
From E360.Yale.edu:
In the summer of 2013, two Alexander Archipelago wolves (Canis lupus ligoni), a subspecies of gray wolf, swam across a narrow channel to reach Pleasant Island, Alaska, a 19-square-mile rock jutting out of the stormy Gulf of Alaska. Wolves hadn’t previously lived on Pleasant Island, and they quickly ran roughshod over the island’s deer population. Within a few years, the wolves blossomed to a family of 13, and the deer, in turn, were entirely wiped out.
As the deer declined, Gretchen Roffler, a biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, wondered about the wolves’ fate.
FromDevDiscourse.com:
A male wolf was shot dead by the forest department in response to aggressive campaigns after multiple wolf attacks in Bahraich district, resulting in human fatalities. This marks the ninth wolf being killed since measures were directed by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, alongside the transfer of a key forest officer.
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