From APNews.com:
PARIS (AP) — A French supermarket’s humble Christmas advert is doing something most global brands can only dream of: connecting deeply with millions of people around the world, without a single frame of generative AI.
The two-and-a-half-minute film, “Unloved” (Le mal aimé), made for Intermarché, tells a simple yet powerful story: A lonely wolf, feared and avoided by other forest animals, chooses to change.
From hcn.org:
Since their reintroduction to the state in late 2023, Colorado wolves have roamed widely. In October, a wolf activity map issued by Colorado Parks and Wildlife showed that wolves are nearing the state’s southern and western borders.
Highlighting the watersheds where biologists located at least one collared wolf during the previous month — without revealing specific location data — the map showed that wolves have been present in Archuleta, Conejos, and Costilla counties, all of which border New Mexico. Wolves can cover up to 30 miles in a single day, and one collared wolf has traveled about 400 miles since she was reintroduced in January.
From CowboyStateDaily.com:
Wyoming is famous for its wildlife rock stars like Grizzly 399 and Hoback the moose, which have helped make tourism one of the state’s top industries.
But the past couple of years have seen current or former Wyoming residents embroiled in a string of accusations of cruelty to wild animals, leaving some to ponder the damage to the state’s reputation.
From Yahoo.com:
Colorado’s on-again, off-again hopes of securing wolves from the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation in Washington is off again, greatly jeopardizing a wolf release taking place this winter.
Just days after the Coloradoan first reported the Colville Tribes’ willingness to provide wolves if wolf management issues with Colorado tribes could be worked out, it now appears Colorado may miss securing wolves for a planned third release as part of its reintroduction program.
From AspenTimes.com:
National Geographic Explorer Ronan Donovan, a wildlife biologist turned conservation photographer, will be coming to the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen on Dec. 16 to explore what it means to be human in the face of living with wolves.
Donovan’s first ever talk in Aspen will take place from 7 to 8:30 p.m. as part of the Wheeler Opera House’s Changemaker Speaker Series and in partnership with the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies. According to the event’s website, the talk will look into what it means to be human through connection with other social mammals.
From NPR.org:
Colorado ranchers are generally not happy about the return of wolves to the state. The predators are back after an 80-year hiatus. Voters approved a ballot measure a couple of years ago to reintroduce them. Now the state is hiring what are called range riders to protect livestock. Aspen Public Radio’s Halle Zander has this report.
From SteamboatRadio.com:
Gray wolf 2403, which was a member of the Copper Creek Pack in Grand County, crossed the border into New Mexico. It was captured by the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish and returned to Colorado. Colorado Parks and Wildlife says it was brought back to Grand County, “and released in a location where it can best contribute to CPW’s efforts to establish a self-sustaining wolf population while concurrently attempting to minimize potential wolf-related livestock conflicts.”
From VailDaily.com:
Colorado lawmakers continue to raise questions about the cost of the state’s wolf reintroduction during the early phases of the annual budgeting process for 2026. On Tuesday, Dec. 9, the Joint Budget Committee was briefed by committee staff on the 2026 budget for the Department of Natural Resources, which includes Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
From Mongabay.com:
California’s expanding gray wolf numbers — a conservation success for an endangered species — have worried ranchers in recent years as wolf-related livestock kills mount. Some ranchers are adapting to the changing landscape, using short-term nonlethal deterrents, some of which are funded by a state compensation program. A few ranchers are exploring long-term approaches, such as changing their ranching practices and training their cattle to keep them safe from wolves.
While change is hard, ranchers acknowledge that learning to live with the new predator is the only way forward, and it pays to find ways to do so.
From 9News.com:
DENVER — Colorado Parks and Wildlife has not publicly announced a source to provide more wolves to the state this winter, but the agency’s former director described the need for more wolves as “increasingly critical” and a “must,” in letters obtained by 9NEWS Investigates.
The International Wolf Center uses science-based education to teach and inspire the world about wolves, their ecology, and the wolf-human relationship.