A quarter of the Netherlands’ known wolves have vanished
From DutchNews.nl:
A quarter of the officially registered wolves in the Netherlands have disappeared, and experts believe they may have been killed by poachers, according to a report by the Volkskrant on Wednesday.
Out of the 91 wolves whose DNA was recorded between 2015 and 2023 through excrement, carcasses, and other traces, 23 are confirmed dead, the paper said. Two of these wolves were shot by poachers, 15 were hit by vehicles in the Netherlands, and one was run over in Germany and Belgium respectively.
However, 22 wolves have disappeared without a trace, with no further DNA samples detected, in the Netherlands or elsewhere, European wolf experts told the newspaper.
