From AP News.com:
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Two rare black wolves, likely siblings, were spotted on camera crossing a stream in a Polish forest, a conservation organization said Sunday.
The unusual sighting, captured last year on a video camera set up by SAVE Wildlife Conservation Fund Poland project coordinator Joanna Toczydłowska, has prompted the organization to collect scat (droppings) in the forest in the hopes of learning more about the black wolves’ genetics.
From Phys.org:
A new study reveals the profound ecological effects of wolves and other large carnivores in Yellowstone National Park, showcasing the cascading effects predators can have on ecosystems. In Yellowstone, this involves wolves and other large carnivores, elk, and willows.
The research, which utilized previously published data from 25 riparian (streamside) sites and collected over a 20 year period, from 2001 to 2020, revealed a remarkable 1,500% increase in willow crown volume along riparian zones in northern Yellowstone National Park, driven by the effects on elk due to a restored large carnivore guild following the reintroduction of wolves in 1995–96, and other factors.
From MountainJournal.org:
Wyoming has long had a complicated relationship with wolves. Now, two bills introduced at the legislative level are looking to curb cruelty to wolves and other predators.
From TaosNews.com:
A female gray wolf with a radio collar was exploring territory in Southern Colorado a month ago, roughly 100 miles north of Raton, according to the latest Colorado Parks and Wildlife gray wolf activity map.
But what happens if a gray wolf crosses from Colorado into New Mexico?
From HumaneSociety.org:
Since U.S. President Donald Trump returned to the White House last month for a second term, his administration has been issuing dozens of executive orders, some of which can have an impact on animals.
Executive orders are presidential instructions designed to direct federal government agencies and their staff members to take (or not take) certain actions, and it is customary for presidents to issue them early in their tenure to make good on campaign promises and/or pivot to agency agendas of their own. A permissible and legal executive order needs to be rooted in one of the president’s constitutionally outlined powers or in a law approved by the Congress.
From CapitalPress.com:
OLYMPIA — Two sheriffs told the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee that county officials in northeast Washington should have more say in managing wolves. Stevens County Sheriff Brad Manke and Ferry County Sheriff Ray Maycumber testified Wednesday for a bill calling for local boards to develop wolf-management plans in counties with at least three reproducing wolf packs.
From Newsday.com:
ALLIGATOR RIVER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, N.C. — Hunters were once the greatest human threat to the country’s only unique wolf species. Today, it’s motorists.
That fact was brought home last June, when red wolf breeding male No. 2444 was struck and killed on U.S. 64 near Manns Harbor, North Carolina. His death likely meant five pups he’d been providing for died, too.
“We were hoping the mother would return and resume care, but she never did,” Joe Madison, head of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s red wolf recovery program, said during a recent visit to the site.
From Nature.com:
After centuries of decline and protracted bottlenecks, the peninsular Italian wolf population has naturally recovered. However, an exhaustive comprehension of the effects of such a conservation success is still limited by the reduced availability of historical data. Therefore, in this study, we morphologically and genetically analyzed historical and contemporary wolf samples, also exploiting the optimization of an innovative bone DNA extraction method, to describe the morphological variability of the subspecies and its genetic diversity during the last 30 years.
From SwedenHerald.com:
Never before have so many large predators been shot in Sweden as in the last ten years. Since 2015, over 4,400 bears, 1,100 lynxes, 400 wolves, and 180 wolverines have been killed during licensed and protective hunting.
The information comes from the Rovbase database, which is managed by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and the Norwegian Environment Directorate.
From wildlife.org:
To stop predation on livestock in Oregon, researchers took to the skies.
Wildlife managers are turning to the sky to keep wolves from livestock, scaring the predators away with drones equipped with speakers.
“We were able to effectively haze wolves away from cattle—and in one case—even stop an attack in progress,” said Dustin Ranglack, Predator Project leader at the U.S. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s Wildlife Services National Wildlife Research Center.
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