From The Standard:
After wolves swooped from the forest and savaged her lambs, sheep farmer Renate Pilz feels like giving up. Others, to the anger of conservationists, are reaching for their rifles.
“I lost two ewes and two lambs” to the wolf attack last year, the 55-year-old said at her farm in the village of Arbesbach.
She pulled out photos of her animals, bleeding and so badly bitten that they had to be put down.
“It’s too much work, it’s no longer profitable and, above all, I don’t want to do it any more,” she said.
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Leaders meet to discuss wolf issue
From WAOW.com:
ROTHSCHILD, Wis. — (WAOW) You probably can’t go anywhere in Wisconsin without running into someone who has an opinion about the state’s wolf population. State and federal lawmakers, along with candidates for office, shared their ideas about how the issue can be solved.
At a roundtable discussion at Schuette Metals, Congressman Tom Tiffany, U.S. Senate Candidate Eric Hovde, and several republican members of the state legislature, met to discuss how wolf attacks are impacting their constituents, and called for more action.
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Swelling wolf population creates culling controversy
From The Standard:
After wolves swooped from the forest and savaged her lambs, sheep farmer Renate Pilz feels like giving up. Others, to the anger of conservationists, are reaching for their rifles.
“I lost two ewes and two lambs” to the wolf attack last year, the 55-year-old said at her farm in the village of Arbesbach.
She pulled out photos of her animals, bleeding and so badly bitten that they had to be put down.
“It’s too much work, it’s no longer profitable and, above all, I don’t want to do it any more,” she said.
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The child-killing wolves sparking panic in India
From BBC:
Four-year-old Sandhya was sleeping outside her mud hut in India’s Uttar Pradesh state on the night of 17 August when a power cut plunged the village into darkness.
“The wolves attacked within two minutes of the lights going out. By the time we realised what was happening, they had taken her away,” recalls her mother, Sunita.
Sandhya’s body was found lying next day in the sugarcane farms, some 500 metres from her home.
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Surge in Wolf Attacks in Uttar Pradesh Sparks Debate: Are Wolves Truly Aggressive?
From News24Online:
After a sudden surge in wolf’ attacks in Uttar Pradesh was noticed, the question that popped up was whether the wolf is an aggressive animal. People in general want to know under what circumstances wolves attack humans and what can be done to prevent such attacks.
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‘Amazing’: Endangered Calif. animal makes stunning comeback according to new data
From SFGate.com:
In 1924, the last gray wolf in California was shot. For the next 87 years, the native species completely vanished from the state. But now, a century after the fatal shot was fired, seven packs of gray wolves roam the state, and their population growth shows no signs of stopping.
This spring, 30 new wolf pups were born across California’s wolf packs, according to Axel Hunnicutt, the state gray wolf coordinator for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. He said that was the biggest increase in California wolves in a century.
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One of Colorado’s new wolves was driven from Oregon, state report reveals
From 9News.com:
DENVER — One of Colorado’s new wolves endured a 17-hour drive from Oregon before it was released in Grand County. The nine other wolves arrived by plane, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s annual gray wolf report, released on Wednesday.
The report relies on data from the “biological year” which was April 1, 2023, through March 31, 2024. This does not include data or information on any livestock killed by the new wolves. CPW confirmed the first depredation this year on April 2.
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State group presents new legislation for Wyoming’s predators
From Buckrail.com:
WYOMING — On Wednesday, Aug. 28, Wyoming’s Treatment of Predators Working Group released two draft bills poised to establish legislation for the treatment of wolves and coyotes in the state.
Both proposed bills, which are sponsored by Teton County Representative and Chair of the Predators Working Group Liz Storer, are expected to be considered by the Wyoming legislature this fall. Storer told Buckrail that the Working Group is a selection of legislators, public agency officials and representatives of the agriculture industry and sportsmen groups.
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Truths about India’s much-maligned wolves, an ancient species fighting extinction
From Hindu Times:
The current incident in Bahraich has been blown out of proportion in the media maligning the species as a vicious killer of humans.
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Why wolves are attacking kids in Bahraich. How wolf pack has turned quiet villages of UP into fear zones
From Economic Times:
In the Hardi region of Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich, a cluster of around 30 villages has witnessed a spate of wolf attacks since March, resulting in nine deaths, including eight children, and multiple injuries. The crisis seems to stem from habitat disruption caused by the swollen Ghaghara river, pushing wolves towards human settlements.
Gray wolves making historic comeback in California
From KTVU.com:
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – After being on the verge of extinction in California, the gray wolf is making an historic comeback to the state.
The last gray wolf in California was killed in 1924.
But wolves started coming from Oregon in 2011, and now the gray wolf population in California has grown. to a current count of 44.
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