From WDIO.com:
A representative from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) confirmed a dog was likely killed by wolf on Sunday, April 13, on a hunter-walking trail just east of Brookston, Minnesota. Joe Albert, a communications coordinator with the DNR, said a 52-pound husky was off-leash and walking a distance ahead of its owner.
From FitHugh.CA:
BANFF – At least three wolves from the Bow Valley pack, including a young collared male wolf, have been killed in traplines outside Banff National Park earlier this year.
The male wolf, which was fitted with a GPS collar last year, dispersed around the south side of Canmore and then south into Kananaskis Country in late January where he was caught and killed in a trapline near the Elbow River.
From NPR.com:
For millennia, humans have feared and hated wolves. In recent memory, we’ve gunned them down to near extinction. Now conservation efforts in the United States and Europe are trying to bring them back. NPR’s Ruth Sherlock went looking for wolves in the wild in Italy and found something unexpected in the end.
From TheCooldown.com:
An Indian wildlife sanctuary is celebrating the appearance of wolf pups inside their boundaries as the group works to increase the population in the region. The Bankapur Wolf Sanctuary in Karnataka, India, announced the birth of eight Indian wolf pups inside the sanctuary’s boundaries, according to Good News Network.
The Indian wolf is smaller than its Himalayan counterpart and has short fur. It is among the subcontinent’s most endangered species, with just 3,000 remaining across the country, with smaller isolated populations found in Afghanistan and Pakistan as well.
From Bills.BuffaloNews.com:
The bill seeks to create an unlimited wolf hunting quota when Montana’s wolf population is above 550; it currently sits around 1,100 to 1,200, according to the state. The only area exempted from the unlimited quota would be the areas north of Yellowstone National Park that are currently Wolf Management Units 313 and 316, where hunting is restricted to only a handful of animals each season.
The bill initially cleared the House when lawmakers changed language requiring the Fish and Wildlife Commission to adopt such a policy to a “may” – meaning it was optional.
From ChronLine.com:
Oregon’s wolf population increased last year after four years of nearly flat growth, with the animals continuing to expand their habitat westward, according to a new state report. The population grew by 15% to 204 wolves, up from 178 in both 2023 and 2022, according to the annual wolf report released Friday by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.
The number of wolf packs – four or more wolves traveling together in the winter – also went up. A total of 25 packs were documented in 2024, up from 22 packs in 2023.
From SkyHiNews.com:
Colorado Parks and Wildlife has reported a male gray wolf relocated to the state from Canada last summer as deceased in Wyoming, according to a news statement.
On Friday, April 11, Parks and Wildlife confirmed “the mortality of male gray wolf 2513 on April 9 in Wyoming,” according to the release. The wildlife agency said the wolf was part of the group translocated to Colorado from British Columbia, Canada in June 2024. Parks and Wildlife “coordinated with Wyoming Game and Fish for the return of its tracking collar, however Wyoming state law prevents further detail from being shared,” added the release.
From CincinnatiZoo.org:
CINCINNATI (April 9, 2025) – Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden has been instrumental in re-establishing a species that was considered extinct in the wild in the late 1970s. From assembling the annual management meeting to determine the best placement for Mexican gray wolves in human care to constructing a new habitat at the Zoo and a new breeding center at an off-site property, Cincinnati Zoo is all in on Mexican wolf conservation.
“This species was once considered extinct in the wild, and our curator of mammals, Kim Scott, has played a key role in their recovery. At one point in her career, she was responsible for nearly half of the Mexican wolves in existence,” said Cincinnati Zoo director Thane Maynard.
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From KOB.com:
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Conservationists are working to make sure the Mexican gray wolves does not need to be brought back from extinction. Experts say they almost went extinct back in the 1970s, but decades of conservation and rehabilitation efforts are giving the wolves a fighting chance at survival.
The most recent data shows there’s at least 286 Mexican gray wolves living throughout New Mexico and Arizona right now. Conservationists say those numbers are expected to keep going up. “This is a species to celebrate. This is angling towards a real success story for the Endangered Species Act,” said Greta Anderson, deputy director of the Western Watersheds Project.
From CapitalPress.com:
Washington’s wolf population declined in 2024, even as attacks on livestock reached an all-time high, according to the state Department of Fish and Wildlife. Fish and Wildlife and the Colville tribe counted 230 wolves, down from 254 the year before. It was the first time the population dropped since the department started counting wolves in 2008. The department documented 37 wolf mortalities, only one more than in 2023 and the same number as in 2022.
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