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.
From DowntoEarth.org:
Wolves of the Indian subcontinent, both the Indian (Canis lupus pallipes) and Tibetan (Canis lupus Chanco) exhibit an unexpectedly large amount of unique genetic variation, according to a new study by Rice University in the United States.
Rice University professor Lauren Hennelly and her team, which includes scientists from 11 countries, collected and analysed DNA from wolves across Asia.
From MSN.com:
One by one, researchers pulled seven wolf pups out of a den near Cloquet, Minnesota. Each got a collar as part of an ongoing research project on wolf populations.
“It’s so close to home that it just feels really more important because this is the community that I live in and this is the wildlife around me,” Cloquet High School student Melanie Buhls said.
From Q106.com:
With calving and lambing season underway, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) would like to remind livestock producers in Wisconsin of the wolf damage loss reimbursement process.
During this time of year, producers may see increased wolf presence around their livestock or encounter a livestock depredation in their pastures that they suspect was caused by wolves. Producers may wonder what options they may have to deal with these conflicts.
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From The-Sun.com:
Hunters could face fines of up to $10,000 if they break strict rules tied to a newly slashed bag limit. Wildlife officials are changing stipulations after a disease outbreak drove numbers to their lowest point in two decades.
From BangorDailyNews.com:
As anyone who spends any time in the Maine woods knows, our coyote populations are plentiful and thriving despite recreational and programmed efforts to control these highly efficient predators.
And interestingly, there were no coyotes in Maine at one time. But what about wolves in Maine?
From YahooNews.com:
A rare wolf sighting on a road near La Pine, Oregon, is highlighting a growing reality in Central Oregon.
As development pushes farther into wild areas and wolf populations continue to recover, encounters between people and apex predators are becoming harder to avoid, according to KTVZ.
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