From AlamosaCitizen.com:
Colorado gray wolves continue to move throughout the state, showing activity in watersheds near population centers. Colorado Parks and Wildlife clarified how watersheds are highlighted as wolves move in and out of them.
In November, CPW’s Gray Wolf Activity Map showed much of the San Luis Valley’s watershed lit up with wolf activity. The map seemingly showed movement from Rio Grande County, through Alamosa County and into Costilla County.
From ScienceInPoland.pl:
Wolves fear human voices more than barking dogs or bird calls, according to research from the University of Gdańsk. In a field experiment, Maciej Szewczyk, PhD, and his colleagues used cameras with speakers playing human voices and other sounds.
From WildBeimWild.com:
A few days ago, due to a recent legislative change, the culling of numerous wolves was approved in Switzerland.
However, wolves are, according to the Bern Convention and the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats – both agreements ratified by Switzerland – a ‘strictly protected species’. The now approved culling undermines these agreements and thus the protection of wolves. Moreover, the decision to cull contradicts the result of a national referendum in 2020.
From BrusselsTimes.com:
The European Ombudsman opened an investigation in October 2024 into the Commission’s proposal to weaken the protection status of wolves following a complaint from an NGO that the proposal was not based on sufficient scientific evidence and proper stakeholder consultation. A year later it closed the inquiry at the request of the European Commission.
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From CBSNews.com:
Forest rangers in India have deployed drones to track wolves after nine people, mostly children, were killed by the animals in recent weeks, officials said Sunday.
From AstanaTimes.com:
ALMATY – Turkistan Region’s Baidibek district has seen a surge in wolf attacks on livestock in recent months, causing significant losses for local farmers. Residents of the villages say the number of attacks has increased sharply since August.
From Sci.News:
Wolves, the wild ancestor of dogs, are the only large carnivores that have undergone domestication by humans. Yet, it remains unclear if this process took place via direct and deliberate human control of wild wolves or if wolf populations gradually adapted to the human niche. Now, archaeologists have unearthed the remains of two canid individuals with gray wolf genetic ancestry in the Stora Förvar cave on the Swedish island of Stora Karlsö in the Baltic Sea. This island is small (2.5 km2) and, like the neighboring island of Gotland, carries no endemic populations of land mammals, meaning that any such animals must have been brought there by people.
From TheAspenTimes.com:
Colorado’s top wildlife official has stepped down after more than two years in a role that was largely defined by the state’s controversial wolf reintroduction program.
Jeff Davis has left his job as director of Colorado Parks and Wildlife, according to a Tuesday news release from the Colorado Department of Natural Resources. Davis was appointed to the role by Gov. Jared Polis in May 2023, and previously served for more than 20 years with Washington state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife.
From KDHLRadio.com:
U.S. Congressman Pete Stauber is one of 30 members of congress who has cosponsored the Pet And Livestock Protection Act which aims to delist the grey wolf from the endangered species list.
The Pet And Livestock Protection Act would require the Secretary of the Interior to reissue the 2020 rule that delisted the gray wolves. The act would also ensure that rule can’t be overturned by a judge, like it was by a California judge in 2022.
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From Yahoo.com:
A Mexican gray wolf spotted north of Interstate 40 earlier this year has been captured by helicopter and returned to the Mexican Wolf Experimental Population Area.
Male wolf M3065, nicknamed “Taylor” by conservationists due to his apparent affinity for Mount Taylor, was captured north of Gallina on Nov. 7 and transported to the Gila National Forest.
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