From The Brussels Times in Belgium:
Experts from the Institute for Nature and Woodland Research (INBO) have expressed concern over the possible fate of one of the wolf cubs born last year in Limburg province.
The wolf, now grown, has not been seen for several days. Concern has arisen because in the spring two dogs were allowed to eat poisoned meat on the wolves’ terrain. And on the shooting range at Houthalen-Helchteren, more recently, meatballs spiked with poison were discovered.
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Wisconsin DNR reveals state tensions amid new wolf hunt quota
From The Badger Herald:
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources set a quota of 130 wolves for the November fall wolf hunt. The decisions defied both its own policy-setting board and input from activist groups.
Management authority over gray wolves returned to state agencies after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removed gray wolves from the federal endangered species list Jan. 4, 2021. In accordance with state statute, the DNR plans for the wolf harvesting season to begin Nov. 6, 2021, according to a DNR news release.
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Court Ruling: Federal Government Must Address Poaching in Mexican Gray Wolf Recovery Plan
From EarthJustice.org:
TUCSON, AZ — In response to a lawsuit by conservation groups, a judge has ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) must add specific actions to address illegal killing of Mexican wolves in their plan for the species’ recovery.
The group’s 2018 lawsuit claimed that the plan failed to meet basic requirements of the Endangered Species Act to provide site-specific management actions and objectives with measurable recovery criteria to address the most immediate threat facing the Mexican wolf recovery program since its inception: illegal killing.
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Killing of Idaho wolf pups provokes anger
From the Baker City Herald:
BOISE — Conservation groups in Idaho are speaking out against the “inhumane” killings of eight wolf pups in the wild that were part of a Boise high school’s adopted wolf pack.
Following the killings, representatives from several Idaho groups in August sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack asking that he “immediately suspend the killing of wolf pups on all public lands by the USDA’s federal agents.” The U.S. Department of Agriculture responded last week by saying the agency works to find “practical, humane, effective and environmentally safe solutions to wildlife problems or conflicts,” but lethal measures can be necessary.
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Traveling nurse shoots rare video of Colorado’s first wolves born here in 80 years
From Coloradoan.com:
Chris Chirichetti II had a hunch he was videoing something extremely rare slinking through the sagebrush flats of northern Jackson County while on his way to his archery elk hunting spot.
But he wasn’t sure, so in early October he posted the videos and photos on the Colorado Elk Hunters Facebook group page. Many commenters agreed the black animals were wolves, while others weren’t so sure.
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Idaho reaches deal to reimburse hunters who kill wolves
From the Associated Press:
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho officials will make available up to $200,000 to be divided into payments for hunters and trappers who kill wolves in the state through next summer.
The Idaho Department of Fish and Game late last month entered into an agreement with a nonprofit hunting group to reimburse the expenses for a proven kill.
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Belgium: Experts concerned over fate of one Limburg wolf
From The Brussels Times in Belgium:
Experts from the Institute for Nature and Woodland Research (INBO) have expressed concern over the possible fate of one of the wolf cubs born last year in Limburg province.
The wolf, now grown, has not been seen for several days. Concern has arisen because in the spring two dogs were allowed to eat poisoned meat on the wolves’ terrain. And on the shooting range at Houthalen-Helchteren, more recently, meatballs spiked with poison were discovered.
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Netherlands: Wolves suspected to have eaten a number red deer fawns in Veluwe
From the NLTimes in the Netherlands:
Wolves in the Netherlands have significantly impacted the number of red deer in Zuid-West Veluwe ranger Frank Theunissen from Natural Monuments said in the BNNVARA-program Vroege Vogels. Rangers suspected that the wolf was responsible for the disappearance of many red deer fawns in the past summer.
Hunters have been told not to shoot does or fawns due to the already low number of young red deer.
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Where did the wolf pack in northwest Colorado go? Its fate remains a mystery.
From The Colorado Sun:
On a hazy July afternoon, wolf expert Karin Vardaman returned to a spring-fed pond in Colorado’s northwestern-most corner. Enough rain had fallen to wet the ground around the watering hole. She tiptoed across the soft earth — careful not to disturb any impressions left by cattle and pronghorn antelope — until one track filled her with an almost overwhelming feeling of relief.
There, sunken into the mud near the Wyoming and Utah borders, was a broad wolf print.
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Idaho high school’s adopted wolf pack had 8 pups killed by feds, sparking outrage
From the Denver Gazette:
BOISE, Idaho — Conservation groups in Idaho are speaking out against the “inhumane” killings of eight wolf pups in the wild that were part of a Boise high school’s adopted wolf pack.
Following the killings, representatives from several Idaho groups in August sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack asking that he “immediately suspend the killing of wolf pups on all public lands by the USDA’s federal agents.” The U.S. Department of Agriculture responded last week by saying the agency works to find “practical, humane, effective and environmentally safe solutions to wildlife problems or conflicts,” but lethal measures can be necessary.
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Wolves ‘must be reintroduced to UK to fight climate crisis even if farmers lose sheep’
From the Mirror in the UK:
Wolves should be reintroduced into Britain to help fight the climate crisis, according to one of Britain’s leading conservationists.
Without Roy Dennis’s efforts, there would be fewer red squirrels, no beavers and no osprey or red kite introductory programmes. And the 81-year-old is showing no signs of retiring.
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