From the Pagosa Daily Post:
Colorado could be less than a year away from the state’s first relocation of gray wolves to parts of the Western Slope, as required by a ballot initiative passed by voters in 2020.
A draft plan released by Colorado Parks and Wildlife last month calls for the reintroduction of 10 to 15 wolves per year over the next three to five years, with an initial target of a stable population of at least 50 animals within the state. (You can download the 293-page plan here.)
From The Times in the UK:
“The wolves are running” is the haunting refrain in John Masefield’s classic seasonal tale The Box of Delights, and this winter the predator is back on the menace.
While Kay Harker and his friends have the magical powers of Old England to ward off the threat, on mainland Europe there is little anybody can do.
From MLive.com:
When a hunter in Manitoba, Canada legally shot and killed a gray wolf in early December, a radio collar found around its neck was the first clue to the incredible journey this animal had been on. The wolf had been collared in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in the summer of 2021, and its GPS data since then showed this wolf’s multi-state and two-country trek was one for the record books.
From The Guardian:
The biggest wolf cull in modern times has begun in Sweden as nature organisations warn it could drastically harm the population.
On Monday, the Guardian accompanied 200 hunters as they went to kill wolves in the frost-covered forests between Gävleborg and Dalarna, hunting from midnight until the sun set at 3pm. Groups will be going out across Sweden all month as they attempt to take down the large predators.
From the Luxembourg Times:
A wolf likely killed a sheep in the north Luxembourg village of Troisvierges, which could be the fifth specimen of its kind to be found in the Grand Duchy in five years, after the protected species became extinct in much of Europe in the 19th century.
It is likely that the sheep was mauled by a wolf based on the bite marks, the nature administration agency said in a press release on Tuesday. The field where the dead sheep was found was searched with a dog trained to smell wolves who also signalled that the animal had been present.
From NCWLife.com:
Washington’s Wolf Advisory Group meets next week and one of its new members, Stevens County rancher Scott Nielsen, will be at the table for a discussion about predator activities and state management practices.
“I’m looking forward to engaging in an important dialogue that I hope leads to better balance in the enactment of state rules,” said Nielsen.
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From The Times:
If wild bears, boars or monkeys are getting a little too close for comfort, who you gonna call? If you’re in Japan, you can now enlist high-tech pest deterrents such as the “Monster Wolf”, or flying drones that bark.
Pests cause $120 million in crop damage annually in Japan, with deer and boar responsible for 60 per cent. Their populations are believed to be about 2.6 million and 800,000 respectively, according to the Japanese Ministry of the Environment.
From Nature World News:
Authorities in the German state of Bavaria in the southeast have ordered that the pups of a wolf that had mated with a domestic dog be located and killed. The local wolf populations were safeguarded by the shoot-to-kill directive on the pups of the wolf-dog hybrids.
At the northwest corner of Bavaria, in the region of Lower Franconia, authorities recorded the wolf-dog hybrids. German law stipulates that to safeguard the local wolf population, these hybrid animals must be shot.
From the Star Tribune in Minnesota:
Minnesota wildlife officials have finalized a plan to keep the state’s wolf population stable for the next decade. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources would aim to keep the population between 2,200 and 3,000 animals, which is where it has been for about 30 years.
From the Coloradoan:
North Park ranchers have been on high alert since late last year, when Colorado’s first wolf kill of livestock in 80 years brought a fear lurking in the back of their minds to top of mind.
It was in the predawn hours of Dec. 18, 2021. The pack that included six wolf pups, the first born in the state since around 1940, and their parents, who migrated into the state, killed a calf a couple hundred yards from where rancher Don Gittleson was sleeping.
The International Wolf Center advances the survival of wolf populations by teaching about wolves, their relationship to wildlands and the human role in their future.