From Airbus.com:
Now four years into their successful partnership, the Airbus Foundation and the Connected Conservation Foundation are continuing to support conservation projects around the world by launching the fourth round of the Satellites for Biodiversity Award.
As in previous rounds, winners will gain access to cutting edge satellite data, now enhanced by AI-driven insights. One of those previous winners is Chulalongkorn University – Ethiopia, concerned with the protection of the Ethiopian wolf, the most endangered carnivore in Africa.
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The wolf is not the problem – it is the solution [Switzerland]
From WildBeimWild:
How reintroduced wolves are healing our forests – and why the FOEN and cantonal hunting authorities are standing in the way.
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The ecology of fear in the Anthropocene has a new plot twist
From AnthropoceneMagazine:
The big bad wolf is really a scaredy cat.
While wolves’ reputation as fearsome predators makes them the stuff of old legends and modern polemics, at least one animal will prompt them to turn tail: humans. That insight from new research runs counter to speculation that wolves protected by conservation laws might become emboldened and attack people unprovoked.
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The most ancient Indian wolf is set to be a new species
From TheHindu.com:
The discreet, charismatic denizen of scrubland and grasslands, the Indian wolf (Canis lupus pallipes), whose population has dwindled to just around 3,000 individuals in India and Pakistan, is likely to be classified as a new species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which would take the number of wolf species in the world to eight.
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”Wolf tourists” fined for feeding cubs in [Netherlands] restricted zone
From DutchNews.nl:
Dozens of fines have been handed out to “wolf tourists” since forest rangers zoned off an area of the Hoge Veluwe national park where wolves feed their cubs.
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Uncollared wolf suspected in Rio Blanco [Colorado] ewe killings, CPW investigating
From 9News.com:
RIO BLANCO COUNTY, Colo. — A wolf killed two ewes within the past week in Rio Blanco County, and Colorado Parks and Wildlife believes uncollared wolf was responsible.
“It is believed these depredations are connected to an uncollared wolf, based on an unconfirmed visual sighting of an uncollared canid and unconfirmed reports of a howl the night of Oct. 9, as well as a lack of GPS collar data in the area,” CPW spokesperson Luke Perkins told 9NEWS.
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Court blocks efforts to remove wolf in Northeast Washington
From Spokesman.com:
The state’s plans to kill a wolf in northeast Washington are off after a court sided with environmentalists seeking to block the action.
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced Tuesday evening that a King County Superior Court commissioner had granted a temporary restraining order blocking the agency’s efforts to kill a wolf from the Sherman Pack in Ferry County.
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‘Dig in and get my hands dirty’: New book explores citizen scientists and their contributions to the Wolf-Moose Project
From GreatLakesEcho.org:
Jeffery Holden spends his summers knee-deep in dead moose.
In his new book “Dead Moose on Isle Royale: Off Trail with the Citizen Scientists of the Wolf-Moose Project” (Michigan State University Press, $24.95) Holden turns decades of volunteer field notes and short essays into an off-trail narrative about the people who sustain one of ecology’s longest-running studies.
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Forest department strikes back: Two wolves shot and injured in Bahraich, efforts to trace ‘the last one of the pack’
From IndianExpress.com:
The Uttar Pradesh forest department on Sunday said that they have shot and injured two wolves suspected to be from a pack of four that have wreaked havoc in Kaiserganj tehsil of Bahraich over the past month. The series of wolf attacks in Bahraich began on September 9, when a child was killed in Paragpurwa village. Since then, the district has witnessed repeated attacks, leaving several people dead and many others injured.
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The last stand of the Ethiopian wolf
From Airbus.com:
Now four years into their successful partnership, the Airbus Foundation and the Connected Conservation Foundation are continuing to support conservation projects around the world by launching the fourth round of the Satellites for Biodiversity Award.
As in previous rounds, winners will gain access to cutting edge satellite data, now enhanced by AI-driven insights. One of those previous winners is Chulalongkorn University – Ethiopia, concerned with the protection of the Ethiopian wolf, the most endangered carnivore in Africa.
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[Finnish] Ministry: 65 wolves in the crosshairs this winter
From YLE.fi:
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry is planning to allow the hunting of at least 65 wolves this coming winter.
The ministry has decided a wolf population of 273 would ensure a favourable conservation status, far below the current population of about 430. Finland determines the large predator’s conservation status in a report to the European Commission, which EU member states must submit every six years.
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