From Mongabay.com:
In May 2025, five counties in northern California — mostly rural farm and ranch land — declared an unprecedented state of emergency. It wasn’t a natural disaster or civil unrest that led to panic, but rather a bunch of thriving canids — wolves, to be precise. They’d killed livestock, and according to some residents, were exhibiting “bold, abnormal behavior” and “coming too close to homes.”
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Montana’s wolf management strategy caught in legal tug-of-war
From DailyInterLake.com:
Two weeks after the Outdoor Heritage Coalition and a pair of Republican lawmakers sued the state for doing too little to reduce Montana’s wolf population, a coalition of conservation groups on Wednesday made the opposite argument before a different judge.
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Survey shows Wallowa County [Oregon] opposes wolves here
From Wallowa.com:
ENTERPRISE — Survey results indicate strong opposition to wolves in Wallowa County and many would support hunting the predators as a management tool. “There is a high level of people who have contact with wolves,” said John Williams, Eastern Oregon co-chairman of the Oregon Cattlemen’s Association’s wolf committee. “A lot of people have had a direct experience with wolves. They would support hunting as a management tool.”
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[Wisconsin] Wolf harvest regulations will soon take effect as wolves face potential delisting
From WPR.org:
After first receiving approval two years ago, Wisconsin’s wolf harvest regulations are set to take effect in November.
Federal protections remain in place for wolves. The harvest regulations help pave the way for a wolf hunt if ongoing efforts to lift federal protections for wolves are successful.
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Deer’s Daring Escape From Wolves on Mount Parnitha [Greece]
From Tovima.com:
Adramatic wildlife encounter just outside Athens has reignited a national conversation about the return of wolves to Mount Parnitha. A video filmed near Lake Beletsi shows a deer leaping into the water to escape a pursuing pack — a rare and cinematic moment in Greece’s natural world.
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FWP [Montana] is in the wolf management hot seat
From MontanaFreePress.com:
Two weeks after the Outdoor Heritage Coalition and a pair of Republican lawmakers sued the state for doing too little to reduce Montana’s wolf population, a coalition of conservation groups on Wednesday made the opposite argument before a different judge.
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Colorado Parks and Wildlife halts search for depredating Copper Creek wolf as more livestock attacks are confirmed in Rio Blanco
From SteamboatPilot.com:
After months of reported wolf activity and seven confirmed wolf attacks on livestock in Pitkin County, Colorado Parks and Wildlife has not verified any depredations in the county since mid-August, causing the agency to change course on attempts to euthanize a responsible Copper Creek wolf.
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As wolves roam California, livestock losses remain low, yet ranchers’ fears grow
From Mongabay.com:
In May 2025, five counties in northern California — mostly rural farm and ranch land — declared an unprecedented state of emergency. It wasn’t a natural disaster or civil unrest that led to panic, but rather a bunch of thriving canids — wolves, to be precise. They’d killed livestock, and according to some residents, were exhibiting “bold, abnormal behavior” and “coming too close to homes.”
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The wolf is not the problem – it is the solution [Switzerland]
From WildBeimWild:
How reintroduced wolves are healing our forests – and why the FOEN and cantonal hunting authorities are standing in the way.
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The ecology of fear in the Anthropocene has a new plot twist
From AnthropoceneMagazine:
The big bad wolf is really a scaredy cat.
While wolves’ reputation as fearsome predators makes them the stuff of old legends and modern polemics, at least one animal will prompt them to turn tail: humans. That insight from new research runs counter to speculation that wolves protected by conservation laws might become emboldened and attack people unprovoked.
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The most ancient Indian wolf is set to be a new species
From TheHindu.com:
The discreet, charismatic denizen of scrubland and grasslands, the Indian wolf (Canis lupus pallipes), whose population has dwindled to just around 3,000 individuals in India and Pakistan, is likely to be classified as a new species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which would take the number of wolf species in the world to eight.
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