From BBC:
Switzerland’s mountain farmers are disappointed and angry, because a cull of the country’s wolves has been put on hold by the courts.
The farmers say the proposed cull was vital to protect livestock and, ultimately, the future of Alpine communities.
Environmental groups argued it went far further than the law allows and could decimate the wolf population.
From The Journal:
After years of discussion and a formal letter asking for help, Colorado Parks and Wildlife has denied rancher Don Gittleson’s request for the agency to kill two wolves that have been preying on cattle on his Jackson County ranch.
Gittleson on Dec. 13 sent a letter to the agency requesting the lethal removal of the wolves, “so that they do not continue to affect the livelihood and mental well-being of the agriculture members of this state.”
From Montana Right Now:
Hunters harvested a sixth wolf in the area north of Yellowstone National Park this week, triggering the end of seasonal wolf hunting there, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks announced Wednesday.
The area north of Yellowstone, known as Wolf Management Unit 313, is the only such unit in the Montana. The season statewide remains open everywhere else in the state until March 16 or when the regional quotas are met.
From KRQE News:
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – 50 years after a key wildlife law was enacted, officials in New Mexico said they’re seeing the return of an iconic animal. The National Park Service said the Mexican Wolf has traveled back to its original habitat, signaling the success of a program under the Endangered Species Act.
In 1973, the Endangered Species Act was signed into law, creating protections for threatened fish, wildlife, and plants. It gave states like New Mexico the ability to protect animals like the Mexican Wolf. Now, one particular wolf is helping restore hopes that the population will resurge.
From KUER 90.1:
If any of the wolves released on Colorado’s Western Slope ever make it to the sprawling hills near the Stanko ranch in northwest Colorado, the family hopes the predators won’t want to go near Samson. The 11-week old Turkish Boz Shepherd didn’t look menacing on a cold day last month when he playfully pawed at a bone his sibling was chewing near the livestock pens. But each week, Samson is putting on pounds, developing a deeper bark and bonding with the dozens of pigs, cows and hens he’s being raised to protect from the new wolf packs.
He’s also spending more time just staring out into the hills surrounding this ranch, which is home to more than a hundred bird species and a cattle operation the Stanko family has run for more than a century.
From Daily Post:
JEMEZ SPRINGS – On the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act (ESA), Valles Caldera National Preserve (VCNP) is excited to mark this important milestone by celebrating a brief visit from an endangered Mexican wolf. The last documented Mexican wolf sighting in Valles Caldera was in 1932.
The female wolf, identified as F2754 by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and known informally as “Asha”, traveled north across the State of New Mexico from the Mexican Wolf Experimental Population Area to the Jemez Mountains. Asha reached Valles Caldera on Nov. 11, 2023.
From West Kentucky Star:
Officials with the Woodlands Nature Station announced that over the past week, all four of their now 18-month-old American Red Wolves have been transferred from Land Between the Lakes to other Red Wolf breeding facilities.
At the recommendation of the Red Wolf SAFE program, the Woodlands Nature Station transferred Trace, Piney, Ginger, and Sugar to new facilities.
From Valley Courier:
COLORADO — Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) experts on Dec. 22 completed capture work in Oregon, finishing their work in the state. As a result of the CPW team’s work in Oregon, the agency released a total of 10 gray wolves onto state-owned public land in Summit and Grand counties, continuing the agency’s efforts to create a permanent, self-sustaining gray wolf population in Colorado.
From ABC7 News:
Of the many animals protected by the Endangered Species Act, there may be no other species more American than red wolf.
Known as “America’s wolf,” red wolves are the only species of wolf that live in the United States and nowhere else on Earth. These uniquely American mammals are featured in National Geographic Kids’ January edition.
From Drovers:
One might think Colorado Governor Jared Polis would scale back his anti-agriculture campaign – at least publicly – after his tone-deaf proclamation of Meat-Out Day on the first day of spring in 2021. But despite that PR fiasco, the governor has again thumbed his nose at Colorado ranchers with last week’s covert wolf reintroduction.
Colorado voters approved the reintroduction of gray wolves via a ballot measure in 2020, so the release of five wolves on Dec. 18 into the wilderness of Grand County was legal. But if it was legal, why was it done secretly? And that’s not the only question Colorado ranchers are demanding the governor answer.
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