From earth.com:
Have you ever imagined a wolf diving into the ocean to hunt? On a remote island in Alaska, this surprising scene is becoming real.
Gray wolves on Prince of Wales Island have started hunting sea otters, an animal usually linked with kelp forests and coastal waters, not forests and predators with paws.
From WDIO:
Grayson had come to the International Wolf Center as a puppy with his brother Axel in 2016. Now, nearly ten years later, the International Wolf Center is learning to cope with Grayson’s death.
From Sooke News Mirror:
The Capital Regional District has a horde of images and videos it plans to share with the public this summer, gathered as part of its pilot program to monitor wildlife in a trio of parks. The CRD large carnivore monitoring program, started in January 2025, gathered data on bears, cougars and wolves in East Sooke, Matheson Lake and Roche Cove parks. The three were selected as a connected landscape of “high value habitat,” staff explained, presenting its information to the Parks Committee on Jan. 29.
From Vail Daily:
In a Dec. 18 letter, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service gave Parks and Wildlife 30 days to submit: a complete reporting of all gray wolf conservation and management activities that have occurred from Dec. 12, 2023, until the present as well as anarrative summary and all associated documents describing Parks and Wildlife’s January 2025 release of wolves imported from Canada and any more releases, including its recent release of a wolf from a pack with a confirmed history of repeated depredation.
From 2 News Nevada:
Last year, Sierra Valley ranchers were dealt one of the worst hands imaginable.
“Last year was terrible,” said Rick Roberti, Sierra Valley rancher. “I relate it to COVID—when we went through COVID, everything was just confusing. Every day was hard, and people were getting hurt every day. And yet there weren’t any solutions. There weren’t any answers.”
From Wyoming Livestock Roundup:
On Jan. 21, Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) announced a decision to pause gray wolf reintroduction efforts for the remainder of the current release season.
Industry groups including the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) and ranchers across the West have welcomed the pause while continuing to call for ongoing policy reform.
From Yahoo! News:
Gray wolves are once again at the center of a political fight in Washington, D.C., as lawmakers debate whether the animals still need federal protection or whether states should take full control of their future.
From Wodnesprawy.pl:
People in highly developed countries support the protection of large predators, as long as they are far from them. They love watching movies about lions in Africa. They support programs for tigers in India or the giant panda in China with their donations and signatures. Meanwhile, the attitude of Europeans toward local large predators (brown bear, gray wolf, Eurasian lynx and wolverine) has been changing for the worse for the past few years.
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From USU.edu:
State officials recently killed three gray wolves near Avon, Utah, in the southwestern corner of Cache County. Wildlife ecology experts from the Department of Wildland Resources at Utah State University answered questions about wolves in Utah.
FromVicNews.com:
Sooke-based wildlife group Wild Wise is urging folks to think twice before sharing wolf sightings online. “Please think carefully before sharing specific wolf locations online,” reads a Wild Wise social media post. “Although these posts are often well intentioned, it’s important to remember that not everyone has the same intentions or feelings when it comes to wildlife.”
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