From OPB.org:
A little-known federal government agency that kills wild animals at the request of ranchers and farmers accidentally killed two federally protected wolves in Southern Oregon last summer.
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s annual wolf population report, published Friday, offered the first disclosure of the accidental gray wolf killings.
From RV.Times.com:
Annual report shows increase in wolf depredations; former Jackson County Wolf Committee chair to host town hall Thursday on wolf population, depredations.
From TheCenterSquare.com:
Washington is inching closer to delisting gray wolves as an endangered species.
Once the wolves establish a presence in the Southern Cascades, they’ll meet all of Washington state’s criteria to be delisted as an endangered species under state law. They were nearly elminiated from the state altogether in the 1930s before Washington listed wolves as endangered under state law in 1980.
From DowntoEarth.org:
In the remote high-altitude stretches of the Kashmir Himalayas, where silence speaks louder than sound and snow muffles every movement, the Himalayan wolf moves unseen, misunderstood, and increasingly endangered.
Once spread across the wild ridgelines and meadows of this landscape, the wolf, a vital apex predator, has now become a vanishing shadow.
From KFIAM640.iheart.com:
Following the controversial euthanization of a mama bear named ‘Blondie’ by residents in Monrovia, lawmakers are considering Senate Bill 1135, which mandates nonlethal solutions for human-wildlife conflicts.
From NewsTalkKit.com:
According to a report released Friday by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, the state’s minimum wolf count rose more than 17% in 2025, rebounding from a slight dip the year before.
Biologists counted 270 wolves statewide at the end of December, including 23 breeding pairs and 49 packs. That’s up from 230 wolves and 43 packs in 2024.
From ElkhornMediaGroup.com:
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife reports that the minimum number of known wolves at the end of 2025 was 230. There were 204 in 2024. There were 30 packs documented with 23 meeting the criteria of breeding pairs, up from 17 in the year prior.
From OregonLive.com:
Oregon’s gray wolf population is continuing to grow and expand west, state wildlife officials said. The state wolf population grew from 204 to 230 animals in 2025, amounting to a 13% increase, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife announced in its annual wolf report Friday.
From ECOticias.com:
A lone wolf just did something that sounds like it belongs in a wildlife documentary, not a densely populated European country.
From GBNews.com:
An entire pack of wolves have been poisoned in an Italian national park which has caused an urgent investigation.
Ten wolves were found dead in the National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise, which straddles the three regions in central Italy.
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