From IFLScience.com:
There are plenty of things that make Yellowstone National Park special. It’s the US’s oldest National Park, dating back more than 150 years. It’s dotted by hot springs that are both fantastically vibrant and existentially (and immediately) perilous. It’s the only place in the country where you could, at least theoretically, get away with murder.
But equally striking is the flourishing wildlife. Flora and fauna abound, harkening back to an America not yet touched by colonialist hands: bison roam wild (indeed, sometimes they’re positively livid); grizzly bears are born and live in safety; cougars are… well, the cougars aren’t doing too hot, to be honest, but they’re trying their best.
And, at the very apex of the local food chain, there are the wolves.
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Wolf-on-livestock attack prevention training to be held in Lewis-Arriola [Colorado]
From The-Journal.com:
A training led by the Colorado Department of Agriculture is scheduled Dec. 8 in Lewis-Arriola to provide education and resources for preventing wolf attacks on livestock. The event, from 5-7 p.m. at the Lewis-Arriola Community Center, comes amid ongoing debate over wolf reintroduction, particularly in rural Western Slope communities such as Montezuma County.
The event will include an update on Colorado’s wolf reintroduction program and offer resources to prevent or reduce wolf-livestock conflicts, according to a flyer.
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Drones & robots deployed against rising wolf & bear attacks in India & Japan
From Animals24-7.org
LUCKNOW, India; TOKYO, Japan––“Forest rangers in India have deployed drones to track wolves after nine people, mostly children, were killed by the animals in recent weeks, officials said Sunday,” reported both CBS and Agence France-Presse on December 1, 2025.
The CBS and Agence France-Presse reports went on to describe the deaths of a 10-month-old girl, “who was snatched by a wolf in Bahraich district of northern Uttar Pradesh state on Saturday while she was sleeping beside her mother,” and the death of a five-year-old boy who “a day earlier, was snatched in plain sight of his mother from outside their home.”
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Wolves on Isle Royale switch from moose to beavers. Will it alter ecosystem?
From BridgeMI.com:
Researchers looked at the location of wolves on Isle Royale relative to the location of known active beaver lodges. In the absence of large predators, the beaver population boomed but has fallen drastically since the translocation of wolves onto the island. As moose grow stronger during summer and fall, wolves appear to shift their attention to beavers.
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NGO call on Member States to not lower the protection status of the wolf
From OIPA.org:
In December 2024, the European Union’s Habitats Directive was officially amended: the wolf went from “strictly protected” to “protected” status.
We just signed a NGO’s letter asking the EU member states to not lower the protection status of the wolf and to intensify efforts to achieve coexistence between wolves and rural communities. This action aims to demonstrate, one year after the directive was amended, that NGOs across the EU remain unconvinced by the political U-turn the EU has made on species protection when the EU lowered the protection status of the wolf against scientific evidence.
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Yellowstone’s Wolves And The Controversy Racking Ecologists Right Now
From IFLScience.com:
There are plenty of things that make Yellowstone National Park special. It’s the US’s oldest National Park, dating back more than 150 years. It’s dotted by hot springs that are both fantastically vibrant and existentially (and immediately) perilous. It’s the only place in the country where you could, at least theoretically, get away with murder.
But equally striking is the flourishing wildlife. Flora and fauna abound, harkening back to an America not yet touched by colonialist hands: bison roam wild (indeed, sometimes they’re positively livid); grizzly bears are born and live in safety; cougars are… well, the cougars aren’t doing too hot, to be honest, but they’re trying their best.
And, at the very apex of the local food chain, there are the wolves.
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Was that a wolf in Whatcom County [Washington]? Here’s what state wildlife officials say
From BellinghamHerald.com:
A photograph going around social media claims to show a gray wolf standing in a field on Smith Road in rural Whatcom County. It’s a grainy color image of what appears to be a canine larger than a coyote, making it one of dozens of wolf sightings that have been reported in Whatcom County since 2020 — from the flanks of Mount Baker to Blaine, Ferndale and the Lummi Reservation.
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Gray wolves continue to move throughout [Colorado] state
From AlamosaCitizen.com:
Colorado gray wolves continue to move throughout the state, showing activity in watersheds near population centers. Colorado Parks and Wildlife clarified how watersheds are highlighted as wolves move in and out of them.
In November, CPW’s Gray Wolf Activity Map showed much of the San Luis Valley’s watershed lit up with wolf activity. The map seemingly showed movement from Rio Grande County, through Alamosa County and into Costilla County.
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Wolves more afraid of human voices than of barking dogs, [Polish] study finds
From ScienceInPoland.pl:
Wolves fear human voices more than barking dogs or bird calls, according to research from the University of Gdańsk. In a field experiment, Maciej Szewczyk, PhD, and his colleagues used cameras with speakers playing human voices and other sounds.
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Participatory action: An appeal for change in Switzerland
From WildBeimWild.com:
A few days ago, due to a recent legislative change, the culling of numerous wolves was approved in Switzerland.
However, wolves are, according to the Bern Convention and the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats – both agreements ratified by Switzerland – a ‘strictly protected species’. The now approved culling undermines these agreements and thus the protection of wolves. Moreover, the decision to cull contradicts the result of a national referendum in 2020.
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How the European Ombudsman closed an inquiry on the protection of wolves
From BrusselsTimes.com:
The European Ombudsman opened an investigation in October 2024 into the Commission’s proposal to weaken the protection status of wolves following a complaint from an NGO that the proposal was not based on sufficient scientific evidence and proper stakeholder consultation. A year later it closed the inquiry at the request of the European Commission.
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