From the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram:
ISLE ROYALE, Mich. — One year into its effort to re-establish the wolf population on Isle Royale, the National Park Service and its partners have a problem: The new wolves keep dying and nobody knows why.
Since the Park Service began its relocation efforts in September 2018, 19 wolves have been transplanted from Minnesota, Ontario, Canada and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Three of the wolves have died, the most recent on Sept. 15. Another wolf left the island for mainland Ontario on an ice bridge in January.
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Is the Endangered Species Act’s protection of gray wolves too broad for Minnesota?
From MinnPost in Minnesota:
At its low point in the 1950s, Minnesota’s gray wolf population was estimated to be just 400 animals. As of 2018, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources estimates there are over 2,600 gray wolves in the state.
That recovery is a success story for the Endangered Species Act, a law signed by President Richard Nixon in 1973 that implemented federal protections for a variety of species throughout the U.S.
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Yellowstone wolf teeth lead to extinction theory
From Buckrail.com:
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — This may be a tale that only dentists can appreciate, but the teeth of dead Yellowstone wolves are helping scientists understand the life of predators more than 11,000 years ago.
Inside the Yellowstone Heritage and Research Center is a collection of 160 skulls of adult Yellowstone wolves. By examining the skulls, along with other collections from around the country and world, UCLA professor of ecology and evolutionary biology Blaire Van Valkenburgh and her colleagues have theorized a relationship between the declining amount of prey available and how the big canines consume their wildlife kills.
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Disappearance of Belgium’s first wolf in more than 100 years prompts €30,000 reward offer
From The Independent in the UK:
A reward of £26,700 (€30,000) is being offered for information about the presumed death of a rare wolf in Belgium and her cubs.
Environmentalists blame hunters for the disappearance of the animal, named Naya, who was pregnant again and had a male partner when she was last seen five months ago.
Naya was the first wolf to be sighted in Belgium in a century when she was first spotted in northeast Belgium in January last year.
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Photo Reveals Four New Wolf Pups in Western Oregon
From The Corvalis Advocate:
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released pictures that show four new pups in a western Oregon wolfpack. The pack was first observed earlier this year, with only three members at the time. Trail camera footage reveals three of the young wolves traveling with an adult along a gravel road, with the fourth bringing up the rear. One of the pups, a five month-old female, has had a tracking collar placed on her as of September 26.
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Why Ireland should be in the company of wolves
From The Times in the UK:
Could wolves and predators such as lynx be the solution to saving what’s left of Ireland’s natural world?
Wolves were driven to extinction in 1786 but their reintroduction could help rewild remote parts of Ireland as part of European efforts to address global warming and save nature. The idea was mentioned in the Dail last week by Eamon Ryan, the leader of the Green Party, during a debate on the state’s forestry policy, which promotes coniferous plantations devoid of wildlife and flora. The Greens are advocating for the creation of native woodlands and using wolves and other predators to ensure wildlife thrives.
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Washington governor seeks to reduce number of wolves killed in state
From the Casper Star Tribune:
POKANE, Wash. — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is seeking ways to reduce the number of wolves killed by the state.
Inslee sent a letter Tuesday to the Department of Fish and Wildlife saying the statewide wolf management plan does not appear to be working in the Kettle River Range area of Ferry County, where the state has killed about two dozen wolves that were preying on cattle.
His efforts come as wildlife experts say the vast majority of the predators are causing no trouble.
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Mystery surrounds deaths of Isle Royale wolves
From the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram:
ISLE ROYALE, Mich. — One year into its effort to re-establish the wolf population on Isle Royale, the National Park Service and its partners have a problem: The new wolves keep dying and nobody knows why.
Since the Park Service began its relocation efforts in September 2018, 19 wolves have been transplanted from Minnesota, Ontario, Canada and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Three of the wolves have died, the most recent on Sept. 15. Another wolf left the island for mainland Ontario on an ice bridge in January.
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Tasmanian Tiger and wolves share DNA: University of Melbourne study
From examiner.com/au
The Tasmanian Tiger and the wolf had DNA in common, a new study from the University of Melbourne has discovered.
The study, conducted by Dr Charles Feigin, Princeton University and University of Melbourne, and Professor Andrew Pask, at the University of Melbourne, was published in the journal Genome Research.
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Denmark’s first wolf slaying trial sees conviction upheld
From Xinhua:
COPENHAGEN, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) — The Danish Court of Appeal upheld on Wednesday a guilty verdict in the case of a 67-year-old hunter who had killed a wolf in violation of the country’s hunting act.
Wolves have been protected in most of the European Union (EU) countries since 1992. This means that hunting or trapping them is prohibited. Shooting a wolf can result in fines and imprisonment for up to two years.
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Three more wolves brought to Isle Royale
From the Daily Mining Gazette:
ISLE ROYALE — Will more wolves come to Isle Royale? That depends on what happens the wolves already on the island do over the next few months.
Three more wolves were successfully brought to Isle Royale National Park from the western Upper Peninsula on Sept. 13, ending the translocation for the fall. A fourth wolf was part of the transport, but died on the island the following weekend.
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