From Ecoticias.com:
A lone wolf just did something that sounds like it belongs in a wildlife documentary, not a densely populated European country.
GPS points analyzed by the KORA Foundation indicate a male wolf known as M637 crossed Lake Lucerne by swimming about 0.93 miles (1.5 kilometers) on Feb. 13, 2026, through 41°F (5°C) water, with a location ping appearing right in the middle of the lake.
From Czech Academy of Sciences:
Over the past few decades, the golden jackal has been pushing into parts of Europe where it had never been recorded before. An international study, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, outlines the reasons why.
According to our researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the CAS, who contributed to the study, the expansion is driven by a combination of climate change, landscape modification, and the long-term decline of large predators, especially wolves.
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From SciencDaily.com:
One of the most celebrated claims about Yellowstone’s wolves is facing a major challenge. Scientists say the study behind the famous trophic cascade story relied on flawed methods that overstated the ecological impact of wolf recovery. Their reanalysis found no evidence for a dramatic, park-wide surge in willow growth. Instead, the effects appear smaller and vary from place to place.
From ChathamHouse.org:
The fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 brought many changes to Europe. One of the more unexpected was that it allowed the big carnivores of Eastern Europe to begin expanding their range westward, where for centuries they had been practically unknown.
Few large mammals, people included, had been permitted to cross from east to west before the borders reopened. From the guard towers, they shot the bears for fun. Today, the European wolf is undergoing a remarkable resurgence.
From NotesFromPoland.com:
A newly released video shows for the first time a pack of wolves attacking a herd of bison in Poland, which is home to the world’s largest population of European bison as well as a growing number of wolves.
The footage, caught by a camera trap, shows seven wolves targeting a group of 11 bison. The predators focus in particular on a newborn calf, which they manage to bite and begin to drag away before being charged and driven off by two adult bison cows.
From ABQJournal.com:
They were father and son, roaming Catron County as part of the Sawtooth pack. Within a month of each other, both collared Mexican gray wolves were trapped on private property near Datil. The father was left to die of thirst before his body was placed beside a highway, according to authorities. The son was shot in the spine and beaten over the head, his body moved onto public lands where cattle graze.
A monthslong investigation into the deaths of the protected species led U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agents to search two properties April 9, according to a search warrant return filed in U.S. District Court in Las Cruces.
From TheFencePost.com:
The federal 10(j) rule, which Colorado has in place, allows ranchers and livestock owners to shoot and kill wolves caught in the act of attacking livestock, working dogs, or to protect human life and that law is about to be put to the test. The results, which will come from a Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission that includes three newly appointed commissioners, have the attention of ranchers across the West who deal with depredations.
From CollingwoodToday.ca:
Grey County is going to increase the bounties it pays to hunters and trappers who eliminate “nuisance” beavers, coyotes and wolves, even after a staff report recommended ending the program.
At its meeting on June 11, council voted to continue to have a bounty system in place and to increase the bounties paid by the county. For more than a year, the county has been studying the beaver and coyote/wolf bounties it offers to hunters and trappers.
From HeraldAndNews.com:
During the regular Klamath County Board of Commissioners’ administrative meeting Tuesday, Commissioner Derrick DeGroot brought two resolutions from the National Association of Counties, which he will formally sponsor.
From Denver7.com:
Colorado Parks and Wildlife has killed a lone, uncollared wolf believed to be responsible for 10 confirmed depredation events since the summer of 2025, the agency announced Saturday.
Officials said video evidence showed the wolf — originally a member of the Copper Creek Pack — was the same elusive wolf responsible for depredations in Rio Blanco County in 2025 and early 2026. Officials had made several previous attempts to “lethally remove” the wolf, but were unsuccessful and eventually called off the effort.
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