From Buckrail:
JACKSON, Wyo. — On Friday, May 31 at the Center for the Arts, the event, “Heating Up: Grizzly, Wolf Management and Climate Change,” tapped Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) experts to discuss how projected changes to temperature, precipitation and water will continue to impact apex predators, specifically grizzly bears and wolves, in the area.
Joe O’Connor, Managing Editor of Mountain Journal, moderated the well attended event with wolf biologist Doug Smith, grizzly biologist Chris Servheen and paleoclimatologist Cathy Whitlock.
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Event highlights climate change impacts on wolves, grizzlies
From Buckrail:
JACKSON, Wyo. — On Friday, May 31 at the Center for the Arts, the event, “Heating Up: Grizzly, Wolf Management and Climate Change,” tapped Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) experts to discuss how projected changes to temperature, precipitation and water will continue to impact apex predators, specifically grizzly bears and wolves, in the area.
Joe O’Connor, Managing Editor of Mountain Journal, moderated the well attended event with wolf biologist Doug Smith, grizzly biologist Chris Servheen and paleoclimatologist Cathy Whitlock.
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Conservation officials celebrate record number of Mexican wolf pups placed in wild dens
From Arizona Daily Sun:
A record 27 Mexican wolf pups were fostered into wild dens this spring, according to state and federal wildlife managers.
Officials said the wolf pups’ introduction helps provide genetic diversity within the population of Mexican wolves, as the species recovers from near-extinction.
The newborn Mexican wolf pups came from six genetically diverse litters kept in five institutions involved in the recovery effort from across the United States. The pups were then placed into eight wild dens in Arizona and New Mexico over a month starting mid-April.
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Display of a captured wolf in a Wyoming bar brings outrag
From NPR:
Wyoming is home to hundreds of wolves, most live in or near Yellowstone National Park. They’re protected and a big tourist draw.
But elsewhere in the state wolves are still often reviled as predators and a threat to the livestock industry. So killing wolves in most of Wyoming is legal year-round without a license.
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They find the only known fossil of the Ethiopian wolf from more than 1,5 million years ago
From Aurora:
It is an endangered species that has lived in the Ethiopian highlands for more than 1,5 million years.
A work directed by Martínez-Navarro, a researcher at the Catalan Institute of Human Paleontology and Social Evolution (IPHES) and published in the journal “Communications Biology”, has shown that the fossil, found at the Melka Wakena site (Ethiopia) is more than 1,5 million years ago and the presence of this endemic species of canid goes back in time.
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Fish and Wildlife Service reports a record season for wolf foster program
From Fronteras:
A record number of Mexican gray wolves have been fostered into wild dens. The effort is part of a program to build up the wild population of the endangered species.
The Fish and Wildlife Service says it fostered 27 wolf pups into wild dens this spring in Arizona and New Mexico. It’s a record year for a program that is almost a decade in the making and aims to improve the genetic diversity of wild Mexican wolves, by introducing newborn pups from captive litters.
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$2 Million Offered For Wildlife Crossings To Protect Endangered Red Wolves; Fewer Than 25 Remain In The Wild
From World Animal News:
An anonymous donor has pledged a $2 million match to fund wildlife crossings across a North Carolina highway that’s especially deadly to critically endangered red wolves.
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Minnesota exhibit in Ely takes viewers deep into Voyageurs wolf study
From Outdoor News:
Making scientific concepts and findings accessible to a general audience has long been a challenge for researchers. Most scientific journals have little readership outside academia, and the articles that appear in them are rarely written to be accessible to anyone outside a particular field of study.
The researchers involved with the Voyageurs Wolf Project in Minnesota have done far more than most in recent years to build broad public awareness of some of their novel findings about wolf behavior in and around Voyageurs National Park. And now they’re collaborating with the International Wolf Center and a graphic designer to present a new exhibit that provides a unique perspective on their ongoing studies.
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Yellowstone National Park’s oldest wolf gave birth to 3 pups this spring
From KXLH:
The oldest wolf in Yellowstone National Park, known as Wolf 907, gave birth to another litter of pups this spring.
“This 10th litter has just started to come out of the den,” said Kira Cassidy, a research associate with the Yellowstone Wolf Project.
The three pups are now about 4 weeks old and have started to crawl around. Wolf 907’s current den is visible from the roadway.
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$2 Million Offered for Wildlife Crossings to Protect Endangered Red Wolves
From the Center for Biological Diversity:
RALEIGH, N.C.— An anonymous donor has pledged a $2 million match to fund wildlife crossings across a North Carolina highway that’s especially deadly to critically endangered red wolves. The Center for Biological Diversity, Wildlands Network and coalition partners aim to raise $2 million in matching funds by August 1.
Vehicle strikes are the second-leading cause of mortality for red wolves.
“I’m grateful for this exciting and unprecedented opportunity to save red wolves from extinction and protect human lives,” said Will Harlan, southeast director at the Center. “Wildlife crossings along one of North Carolina’s most dangerous highways are crucial to protecting the world’s most endangered wolf.”
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California mulls wolf listing amid hunts elsewhere
From Yahoo News:
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — While much of the country has relaxed rules on killing gray wolves, California will consider protecting the species after a lone wolf from Oregon raised hopes the animals would repopulate their historic habitat in the Golden State.
The California Fish and Game Commission on Wednesday postponed for three months a decision on whether to list the gray wolf as endangered. Commissioners heard impassioned arguments from environmentalists who want the wolves to again to roam the state and from cattle ranchers who fear for their herds.
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