From OrionMagazine.org:
Orion‘s Digital Editor Kathleen Yale’s beautiful new book What Goes on inside a Wolf Pack is more immediately kid-friendly than, say, the graphic storytelling and environmental journalism of Lauren Redniss, but that doesn’t mean its ambition or narrative is watered down — this is an elegant, thought-provoking, and gorgeously illustrated year-long chronicle of life among Yellowstone’s wolves, one that reveals the animal not in isolation, not on a pedestal, but as one thread of this special ecosystem.
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Biologists heartened by red wolf program’s recent successes
From CoastalReview.org:
EAST LAKE — Red wolf populations in northeastern North Carolina are still far from recovered, but there are optimistic signs that the highly endangered species now has a solid chance. More wolves are breeding, more pups are surviving, coyote hybridization has been cut, and there are fewer mortalities from vehicle strikes and gunshots.
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Why armed herdsmen are the wrong way
From WildBeimWild.com:
The demand for armed herdsmen sounds like a quick solution to the wolf conflict. But it poses more problems than opportunities. The use of firearms in the steep, confusing terrain of the Alps is risky.
Herders are primarily livestock keepers, not trained gamekeepers or police officers. A weapon increases the risk of misfires, accidents, and misunderstandings – for humans, dogs, and wildlife alike.
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Swiss Moesola wolf pack to be culled
From SwissInfo.ch:
The Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) has approved a request to completely eliminate the Moesola wolf pack in canton Graubünden.
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Participation campaign: A call for change in Switzerland
Wil BeimWild.com:
A few days ago, due to a recent change in the law, the shooting of numerous wolves in Switzerland was approved.
However, according to the Bern Convention and the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats – both agreements ratified by Switzerland – wolves are a “strictly protected species.” The now approved cull undermines these agreements and thus the protection of wolves. Furthermore, the decision to cull contradicts the results of a national referendum held in 2020.
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Colorado’s wolf map shows movement near Utah border — but officials won’t say whether any wolves left the state
From SummitDaily.com:
Colorado’s collared gray wolves are continuing to move across the Western Slope, including watersheds along the state’s western border with Utah.
In the latest map from Colorado Parks and Wildlife — which shows the watersheds where the state’s collared gray wolves were located between Aug. 26 and Sept. 23 — the wolves stuck to familiar watersheds in Gunnison, Pitkin, Eagle, Summit, Grand and Routt counties.
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It may look like a wolf, but don’t be fooled. DNA of Darwin’s Falkland Islands wolf reveals a far stranger truth
From BBC Wildlife:
The Falkland Islands wolf didn’t seem to fear humans, Darwin recorded, but that’s because it was a domesticated South American fox species.
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Wolf activity reported in Mesa County [Colorado]
From GJSentinel.com:
One or more collared gray wolves visited northwestern Mesa County during the last month.
The latest monthly map released by Colorado Parks and Wildlife showed collared wolf activity just northwest and west of Grand Junction.
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[Colorado] Producers and others press for wolf pause
From GunnisonTimes.com:
With the release of gray wolves in Gunnison County looming as early as December 2025, a pair of last minute efforts to hit the pause button are underway.
On Sept. 5, the Gunnison County Stockgrowers Association led a group of 28 Colorado organizations and government jurisdictions in filing a “Citizen Petition for Rulemaking” with the Colorado Wildlife Commission. Gunnison County commissioners did not join the petition.
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Colorado Wolf Debate Heats Up Over Claims Diseased Animals Were Released
From CowboyStateDaily.com:
Critics of Colorado’s wolf reintroduction program claim that wolves transplanted from Oregon were infected with a parasitic disease. Wildlife officials say they treated the wolves for the disease before releasing them.
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No Species Lives in Isolation: A conversation about graphic storytelling, wolf-watching, and community, with children’s book author Kathleen Yale
From OrionMagazine.org:
Orion‘s Digital Editor Kathleen Yale’s beautiful new book What Goes on inside a Wolf Pack is more immediately kid-friendly than, say, the graphic storytelling and environmental journalism of Lauren Redniss, but that doesn’t mean its ambition or narrative is watered down — this is an elegant, thought-provoking, and gorgeously illustrated year-long chronicle of life among Yellowstone’s wolves, one that reveals the animal not in isolation, not on a pedestal, but as one thread of this special ecosystem.
Click here for the full story.