From cgtn.com:

The EU is set to weaken the conservation status of wolves by the end of the year, which could result in widespread culling.

The legislation, however, needs to pass several EU bodies before it can come into effect.

This is a complete turnaround in the bloc’s conservation policy. Thirty years ago, the EU re-established wolf packs in areas like the Alps, where they had been extinct for decades. Now, their population has multiplied to 20,000.

However, if wolves further expand in Austria’s Alps, the remaining mountain farmers – that continue to defy low profits and hard work – are likely to quit due to wolf attacks on livestock.

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From Denver7:

BROOMFIELD, Colo. — Ahead of the second round of gray wolf reintroductions in Colorado this upcoming winter, state authorities are offering opportunities to train livestock producers to use non-lethal deterrents to protect their animals from wolves.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) explained that this is part of a larger effort to help those producers implement those non-lethal tools and coexist with wolves on the same landscape as their ranches. Examples of those methods include range riders, disposing of carcasses, guard dogs and a grant program. Each of the planned training sessions will go over those methods.

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From CTGN Europe:

One creature making a comeback from endangered status is the European wolf. The population has grown so successfully the EU is proposing a weakening of their conservation status.

This would allow countries more flexibility in addressing the challenges that come with wolf populations. Is this the right way forward? Johannes Pleschberger reports from Austria.

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From KSL News Radio:

SALT LAKE CITY — A state audit is questioning how the $5 million spent to delist wolves from the endangered species list was actually used.

The audit found a group called Big Game Forever initially controlled the contract. This group had control over the project for nearly a decade. However, when the project went nowhere… state auditors wondered where that money had actually gone.

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From the Warsaw Business Journal:

Poland’s government has sparked significant debate by announcing plans to revoke legal protections for wolves, a move that contradicts decades of successful conservation efforts. The wolf population in Poland has grown from around 500 in 1998 to approximately 1,900 by 2018, thanks to protective measures.

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From Cowboy State Daily:

The Fish & Wildlife Service is trying to remove federal protection for wolves across the Lower 48. If that happens, it would be up to the states whether to allow wolves to be hunted. Hunting is already allowed in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho.

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From 13WMAZ:

Georgia’s Department of Natural Resources is reminding people that many animals cannot be kept as pets in Georgia. On Thursday, they confiscated an “illegal” pet wolf in Stephens County.

They say a female wolf was captured by DNR officials and then taken to “a legally permitted facility.”

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From Catalan News:

A female wolf, the only one reported to inhabit Catalonia in the last 16 years, has killed seventeen goats in Cistella, north of Girona [Spain].

The farmer and landowner, Francesc Barbany, explained in an interview with RAC1 radio that the attacks began a year ago.

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From KSL News Radio:

SALT LAKE CITY — A state audit is questioning how the $5 million spent to delist wolves from the endangered species list was actually used.

The audit found a group called Big Game Forever initially controlled the contract. This group had control over the project for nearly a decade. However, when the project went nowhere… state auditors wondered where that money had actually gone.

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From FOX 31 Denver:

Colorado Parks and Wildlife has spent $4.7 million on wolf reintroduction efforts since 2021, the agency told FOX31 Wednesday.

This is less than the $5.3 million that has been appropriated to CPW by lawmakers but is more than what was originally estimated by the Legislative Council Staff when voters approved a ballot measure to mandate wolf reintroduction in 2020.

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