From DieSachsen News:
In contrast to the nationwide trend, the number of wolf packs living in Saxony is decreasing slightly.
Click here for the full story: https://www.diesachsen.de/en/environment/37-wolf-packs-live-in-saxony-2970911
From TheTravel.com:
Gray wolves are making a comeback in the US, albeit slowly. Most recently, there have been reports of California seeing a return of this apex predator for the first time in 100 years. This is big news, given that there are only seven states throughout the nation that have any sort of gray wolf population.
With such a small area that gray wolves roam today, it can be difficult to locate areas to see real wolves in America. But thanks to national parks and sanctuaries, wolves can not only be seen, but in some instances, interacted with as well. Here are some locations to see real wolves throughout the US.
Click here for the full story: https://www.thetravel.com/places-to-see-real-wolves-in-america/
From Euractiv.com:
With a final decision to reduce wolf protection expected from the Bern Convention Standing Committee next week, NGOs and the international scientific community wrote to world leaders on Tuesday (26 November), urging them to reject the move, arguing that it is unlawful and not based on science.
Between 2 and 6 December, the Standing Committee of the Bern Convention will decide at its 44th meeting whether to downgrade the protection status of wolves from ‘strictly protected’ to ‘protected.’
Click here for the full story: https://www.euractiv.com/section/eet/news/ngos-experts-make-last-push-to-uphold-wolf-protection-status/
From The Western News:
A female gray wolf stepped over the Canadian border and into Montana 45 years ago. Her name was Kishinena.
Kishinena weighed about 80 pounds, had a range of up to 30 miles on each side of the border north of Glacier National Park and was believed to be running with at least a few other wolves upon her crossing into the U.S.
Named after a creek in southeast British Columbia, Kishinena was the first wolf captured and collared by biologists in the North Fork of the Flathead drainage in 1979 after the species had been eradicated from the region decades prior.
Click here for the full story: https://thewesternnews.com/news/2024/nov/26/natural-migration-federal-protections-aided-northwest-montanas-wolf-recovery/
From ColumbiaGorgeNews.com:
GOLDENDALE — On Oct. 6, Washington’s Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) discovered that an adult male gray wolf was shot and killed near the intersection of Highway 142 and Glenwood Highway, just outside of Goldendale.
The wolf reportedly killed two calves on a ranch in the area, but the responsible party is still unknown. WDFW is offering a $10,000 reward for pertinent information. Call 1-844-397-8477 or fill out a form at www.fws.gov/wildlife-crime-tips if you have any details. Callers may remain anonymous.
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From The Lewiston Tribune:
For more than a decade, a passionate debate has reverberated within Yellowstone National Park’s scientific community regarding wolf reintroduction. Did wolves improve aspen growth by helping to reduce elk populations, called a density-mediated indirect effect (DMIE)? Or did the mere presence of wolves make elk so nervous they didn’t eat as many aspen, or avoided areas where they may have encountered wolves, called a trait-mediated indirect effect (TMIE)?
“Scientists don’t just want to show what’s happening; we want to figure out why it’s happening,” explained Kristin Barker, research coordinator for the Beyond Yellowstone Program based in Jackson, Wyo.
Click here for the full story: https://www.lmtribune.com/outdoors/wolves-elk-and-aspen-18098366
From Cowboy State Daily:
Wyoming has roughly 350 wolves scattered among about 30 packs, raising the question of how tracking all those wolves, packs and pack membership doesn’t turn into a muddled mess.
The short answer is the wolves themselves make it relatively straightforward. There’s hardly any movement between groups as wolves tend to live, and die, with the packs they were born into. Collar A Couple, And You Have The Pack
Click here for the full story: https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/11/23/fierce-loyalty-of-wyomings-wolf-packs-make-it-easier-to-track-them/
From The San Bernadino Sun:
California has a growing number of gray wolves howling in the wild and have been tracked for more than a dozen years.
Gray wolves are native to California, but starting in the mid-19th century, European colonizers started hunting wolves to protect livestock. By the 1920s, wolves had been completely removed from the state. In 2011, that changed.
The gray wolf (Canis lupus) is a recovering endangered species protected under the California Endangered Species Acts and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Federal Endangered Species Act.
In 2011, a male wolf, part of a 2009 Oregon litter and tagged OR-7, entered California and became the first wolf to enter the state since 1924. OR-7 traveled thousands of miles through California before finally settling back in Oregon with a mate. Several wolves from that pairing have migrated and settled in California.
Click here for the full story: https://www.sbsun.com/2024/11/22/here-are-the-latest-species-counts-for-californias-gray-wolf-packs/
From MSN.COM:
The “most endangered wolf species in the world” grew by 1% this spring when four red wolf pups were born at a Missouri reserve, officials said. “When you consider how few red wolves remain, each birth is an achievement,” Sabarras George, director of the Saint Louis Zoo WildCare Park, said in a July 8 news release.
About 20 red wolves live in the wild today while 290 are under human care, according to the St. Louis Zoo.
The births of Otter, Molly, Finn and Obi in April and May at the St. Louis Zoo’s Wildlife Reserve in Franklin County added to the critically endangered population of American red wolves (Canis rufus), the zoo said.
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From The Hudson Star Observer:
When Donald Trump served as president the first time, he defied conservation groups and scientists warning that wolves could be slaughtered and might not survive if he stripped the animal of its endangered protection, according to the Washington Post. When he did that, he left the fate of the gray wolf in Wisconsin up to the jurisdiction of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR). Then, a hunt went wrong.
Click here for the full story: https://www.hudsonstarobserver.com/news/gray-wolf-population-in-wisconsin-as-trump-administration-could-change-jurisdiction/article_e76fe698-a83a-11ef-bce0-abd3c0be45e9.html
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