From Wild beim Wild:
A reader from Spain contacted IG Wild beim Wild this week.
In Asturias, she wrote, the regional government had decided to kill 67 wolves. She asked for help for these animals. We looked into the case. It is confirmed, and it is more serious than a mere kill figure would suggest.
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What can working dogs tell us about how wolves are moving across the landscape?
From Vail Daily:
Wild Ranch and Working Dogs for Conservation came together for 10 days in North Park in August to test a new idea to aid producers dealing with wolf-livestock conflict.
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Young wolves disperse more when well fed
From The Wildlife Society:
Should they stay or should they go? How young wolves make this decision has less to do with them clashing with their families and more to do with food availability and wolf density.
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Northwest Colorado remains a hotbed for gray wolf activity in August
From The Aspen Times:
Colorado’s collared gray wolves remained centralized in the state’s northwestern region in August.
While the region contains the territories for all four of Colorado’s reproducing packs — and a fifth non-reproducing pack — wolf activity also pressed against the state’s borders with Wyoming and Utah during the past month.
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As British Columbia mulls continued wolf-killing to save caribou, critics say habitat loss is the real threat
From Mongabay:
The government of the Canadian province of British Columbia is in talks to extend its decade-long wolf cull program by another five years. Since 2015, the province has killed wolves in areas with declining populations of endangered woodland caribou as part of its Caribou Recovery Program.
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California Wolf Center plans to expand education, conservation efforts
From Yahoo.com:
The California Wolf Center is preparing for a major expansion that leaders say will make its education programs more accessible and broaden its focus beyond wolves to other native California predators.
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Gray Wolf OR-213 Spotted Along Cascade Lakes Highway [Oregon]
From KQEN News Radio:
A dispersing male gray wolf originating from the Indigo Pack has been seen frequently around the Cascade Lakes Highway corridor in recent weeks.
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Wolves stand to benefit as bear hunting begins in Minnesota
From Yahoo.com:
Minnesota hunters have set up bait piles in advance of bear-hunting season, which begins Tuesday, and wolves are capitalizing.
The accompanying trail-cam footage shows a black bear chasing a wolf from a bait pile, and both animals feeding at the pile minutes later.
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St. Louis Zoo’s endangered American red wolf pups join wild pack in North Carolina
From St. Louis Public Radio:
Three critically endangered American red wolf pups born at the St. Louis Zoo are now growing up alongside a new wild wolf family in North Carolina — a first for the zoo and a rare opportunity to add genetic diversity to one of the world’s most endangered mammal populations.
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Spain clears 67 wolves for killing, even though courts have overturned exactly that three times
From Wild beim Wild:
A reader from Spain contacted IG Wild beim Wild this week.
In Asturias, she wrote, the regional government had decided to kill 67 wolves. She asked for help for these animals. We looked into the case. It is confirmed, and it is more serious than a mere kill figure would suggest.
Click here for the full story.
Ranchers, conservationists clash over federal orders to remove Mexican gray wolves
From Fox 10 Phoenix:
Officials with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently announced the removal of two Mexican gray wolves after the predators killed and injured livestock in the American Southwest. The decision has drawn criticism from conservation advocates who say this type of removal represents a slippery slope.
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